Final Exam: PHIL 1175

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13 cards   |   Total Attempts: 182
  

Cards In This Set

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According to Douglas Soccio, one general rule in philosophy is that philosophical questions cant be settled by emperical sciences or by appeals to religious faith or personal conviction.
T
According to Douglas Soccio, philosophy classes almost never focus on extended arguments.
F
Doug Soccio says philosophy instructors wants to help students obtain philosophical understanding and expect them to "solve or "settle" great philosophical issues.
F
Doug Soccio says philosophy has been characterized as the art of questioning.
true
All philosophy began in acient Greece
False
Philosophy is mostly corcerned with facts and figures.
False
The word Philosophy is mostly concerned with facts and figures.
False
Philosophy comes from latin words 'philo' and 'sophia'
False
Ontology is concerned with being and existence and is a part of metaphysics.
True
Logic and epistemology are totally indistinguishable.
False
Philosophers of science are concerned with questions like 'what causes Cancer'
False
Epistemology is concerned with theories of knowledge.
True
Philosophy pursues questions in every dimension of human life, and its techniques apply to problems in any field of study or endeavor.
True