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Philosopher Biographies and Timeline Quiz

Authored by Lynn Mardon, University of Connecticut.

This activity contains 20 questions.

Question 1
1 Lao-tzu was a Taoist philosopher of which time period?
 
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Question 2
2 Plato was a philosopher of which time period?
 
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Question 3
3 Pico Della Mirandola was an Italian humanist philosopher of which time period?
 
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Question 4
4 John Locke was a British empiricist philosopher of which time period?
 
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Question 5
5 Rene Descartes was a French rationalist philosopher of which time period?
 
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Question 6
6 George Berkeley was an empiricist idealist philosopher of which time period?
 
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Question 7
7 Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher of which time period?
 
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Question 8
8 Charles S. Peirce was an American pragmatist philosopher of which time period?
 
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Question 9
9 Bertrand Russell was an English logician and philosopher of which time period?
 
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Question 10
10 Edmund Husserl was a Jewish phenomenologist and philosopher of which time period?
 
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Question 11
11 The Pyrhonnean skeptic philosopher (175 - 225) who argued that there was no grounding in any knowledge claim because any account of how the world is can be matched by other accounts which are equally convincing was
 
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Question 12
12 The philosopher (1588 - 1679) who argued that because "life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short", and "every man is an enemy to every man" in his famous work, Leviathan, the preservation of peace requires a social contract with an absolute sovereign was
 
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Question 13
13 The rationalist philosopher (1646 - 1716) who is known for (among many other things) discovering differential and integral calculus and whose philosophy is best known in the following works: Discourse on Metaphysics (1686); New Essays Concerning Human Understanding (1704); Theodicy (1710); and Monadology (1710), was
 
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Question 14
14 The empiricist philosopher (1711 - 1776) who isolated the 'problem of induction' and whose work included: Treatise on Human Nature (1739), An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748), Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, was
 
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Question 15
15 The pragmatist philosopher (1842 - 1910) who made lasting contributions to both psychology and philosophy after a bout with 'melancholia' (what we now call depression and anxiety) was
 
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Question 16
16 The philosopher (1806-1873) whose practical theories achieved sweeping reforms on behalf of the working classes, exploited immigrant workers, and women (e.g. in The Subjection of Women (1861), he argues that women should be given the power to vote, to have careers, and to take positions of political and social leadership) was
 
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Question 17
17 The philosopher (1889 -1951) who created two philosophical revolutions in his own lifetime; the first with his doctoral dissertation, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, which he wrote in the Italian trenches and prison camp during WWI, and, later in his life, the second by writing Philosophical Investigations which countered everything he claimed in the Tractatus was
 
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Question 18
18 The philosopher and logician (1910 -1989) whose influential exposition of logical positivism in Language, Truth and Logic (1936) was
 
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Question 19
19 The philosopher (1908-2000) most known for his paper, The Two Dogmas of Empiricism, whose most famous books include: From A Logical Point of View (1953), Word and Object (1960), Ways of Paradox (1966), The Roots of Reference (1967), and Ontological Relativity (1969) was
 
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Question 20
20 The political philosopher (1921-2002) whose book, A Theory of Justice (1971), espoused his liberal position regarding equality and individual rights was
 
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