Test 1 Flashcards
Which statement below best describes the purpose of the book?
To make a tentative progess on philosophic questions using PERSUASIVE EVIDENCE, even if there are few proofs or final answers available.
The purpose of the square counting exercise the first day of class was most nearly which one of the following?
To suggest that in philosophy viewing problems from multiple perspectives can result in better answers.
Which of the following relationships on the Philosophic Readiness Inventory is most likely?
Low confidence predicts low commitment
Those who believe that philosophic reflection produces OPINION BUT NO OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE are most likely to score poorly in which readiness factors?
Confidence
True/False: Kretchmar argued that, because he facors pragmatic brands of philosophy, he also believes there is usually very little to be gained by studying idealism and other philosophies.
False
Which of the following, according to the text, best describes the relationship between philosophy and science?
Complementary
Which of the following best describes the difference between interdisciplary and intradisciplinary research?
Interdisciplinary researchers work independently, then get together later to produce a larger picture; intradisciplinary researchers collaborate from the start and this affects their own disciplinary research.
When we understand that intangibles like attitude can actually affect the chemicals in our stomachs, and that chemical can affect intangibles like attitudes, this is an argument for:
Recipocal causation
True/False: Philosophers agree with Newton that the world works reliably and entirely on principals of linear relationships
False
Which of the following statements about physiology and philosophy is most accurate?
They can address the same research question, but do so at different levels.
In which of the following activities would philosophers who avoid “measurement turn” mostly likely engaged?
Reflecting on the measuring of physical fitness
Which philosophic method starts as follows: “If it is true that competition requires two or more parties. And if it true that these parties must commit the playing better than the other side or sides. Then it follows that…
Deductive
When we reviewed intuitive reasoning in class by removing elements from an example, we started by examining two runners in a race. We intuited that competition was present. What did we then remove in order to gain insight on requirements for competition?
We removed one of the runners and had the rest of the runners try and improve on their time when running the next day.
True/False: We used three methods to investigate the nature of cometition, but started with inductive reasoning. This was done to make the following two points: 1. Inductive reasoning is the most effective kind of reasoning among the three ways of thinking. 2. Inductive reasoning almost always comes first when trying to answer complex questions.
True
When varying s single example–adding and subtracting elements to see if the phenomenon remains intact–bias can affect what one sees. This is a problem for which method?
Intuitive/Descriptive
