Exam 3: Reality and Being

A.J.Ayer believed that there were only two kinds of meaningful statements:

What philosopher,in his book Man a Machine,argued that humans are nothing more than complex machines?

What French philosopher argues that the scientist's objective time is just a conceptual abstraction,a construct of the mind?

Heidegger was influenced by which view?

The Charvaka philosophers were spiritualists.

Hobbes believed that our mental states are states of our brain.

Who was also known as the Lokyata?

Who is best known for writing of our own human being in the world,our Dasein?

An unusual aspect of consciousness is that the objects of which one is conscious need not exist.This feature of consciousness is called

The view that there are many realities and that realities are constructed by the many languages of the cultures and subcultures is called

What contemporary Canadian philosopher argues that all the things in the universe are thoughts in the mind of God?

Dewey believed that philosophy arose out of people's struggles to deal with social and political problems.

Which view is the heir of pragmatism and idealism?

The view that there are no absolute truth but that all truth is relative to groups or persons,acculturation or personal bias is called

____________________ is the view that reality is only one kind of thing.

____________________ ____________________ is generalizing about what we observe.

Vasubandhu claimed that we directly perceive the objects in the world around us.

Hobbes believed that there was more to the Universe than measureable mater.

Do you believe that pragmatism is a tenable middle ground between materialism and idealism? If not,why not? If so,why do you think this? How do your answers to these questions illustrate your own views on the value and role of metaphysics in understanding the world around you?

____________________ is the view that matter is the ultimate constituent of reality.