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By “high accessibility requirements” the internalist means:
Question 2
The view in which the basing relationship between beliefs is deductive:
Question 3
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Question 1
By “high accessibility requirements” the internalist means:
Selected Answer: Through introspection I can obtain the reasons for my beliefs.
Question 2
The view in which the basing relationship between beliefs is deductive:
Selected Answer: Strong foundationalism
Question 3
Rene Descartes was a:
Selected Answer: Global
skeptic Question 4
According to externalism one must be aware of whether his cognitive processes are functioning properly or
not.
Selected Answer: False
Question 5
Coherentism holds that some beliefs are more foundational than others.
Selected Answer: False
Question 6
For Aristotle, the “Golden Mean” points to fixed and universal ethical norms for all people to follow.
Selected Answer: False.
Question 7
Thomas Aquinas thought that moral and intellectual virtues were closely related.
Selected Answer: True.
Question 8
The virtue of studiousness does not take into account the proper kinds of motives for seeking knowledge.
Selected Answer: False.
Question 9
Vices might be described as characteristics that are destructive in nature.
Selected Answer: True.
, Question 10
Discussions of vice and virtues tend to arise within which major area of philosophy?
Selected Answer: Ethics.
Question 11
What is the point of Descartes' evil demon argument?
Selected Answer: To demonstrate that all our beliefs about an external reality may be false, since it is
always possible that an evil demon is constantly working to deceive us about what is real.
Question 12
According to Dew and Foreman, most rational people believe that it is extremely rarely for our senses to
mislead us.
Selected Answer: False
Question 13
To suggest that we should suspend all judgments about any claim to knowledge, is to suggest a softer and
mitigated form of skepticism in contrast to its more unmitigated expressions.
Selected Answer: False
Question 14
When Larry claims definitely and dogmatically that he knows we cannot know anything at all, he is
expressing:
Selected Answer: An obviouisly self-defeating claim
Question 15
Among some of the reasons why unmitigated skepticism is difficult for a person to consistently hold as a
serious philosophical position is because
Selected Answer: All of above.
Question 16
Ginger believes that the dog she sees in her neighbor’s back yard is her own Labrador Retriever named
Sam. Since there are no other Labrador Retrievers in the neighborhood fitting the same description as Sam,
and since the dog Ginger sees in her neighbor’s yard seems to recognize Ginger’s voice when she calls
out to it, Ginger quite naturally believes the dog in her neighbor’s back yard is her dog Sam. It turns out,
however, that the dog in her neighbor’s back yard is in fact not Ginger’s dog but the Labrador of a visiting
relative of her neighbor. On an internalist account of justification, since it turns out not to be true that
Ginger saw her dog Sam in her neighbor’s back yard, Ginger was not justified in believing it was her own
dog in the first place.
Selected Answer: False
Question 17
While Clifford’s form of evidentialism may have its difficulties, most contemporary epistemologists agree
that it is, at the very least, not a selfdefeating position, and this is part of what makes it a good option
for epistemic justification.
Selected Answer: False
Question 18
Select the one below that is NOT a difficulty with W.K. Clifford’s approach to evidentialism
Selected Answer: It is certain that his approach to evidentialism reverts to a form of reliabilism in
knowledge.
Question 19
My belief is a justified belief if and only if it is, in fact, a true belief.
Selected Answer: False
Question 20
Those holding to some form of externalism in rationality tend to argue that, since it is impossible for
persons to have any cognitive access to the reasons and evidence that support some of a person’s beliefs,
internalists cannot be right with respect to their account of justification for all beliefs.
Selected Answer: True
Question 1
3 out of 3 points
The areas on knowledge that Descartes doubted include:
, Selected Answer: Knowledge based on sense information
Question 2
3 out of 3 points
According to externalism one must be aware of whether his cognitive processes are functioning properly or
not.
Selected Answer: False
Question 3
3 out of 3 points
Coherentism holds that some beliefs are more foundational than others.
Selected Answer: False
Question 4
3 out of 3 points
The answers to the skeptical challenge suggested in the pointecast presentation include:
Selected Answer: All of the above.
Question 5
3 out of 3 points
Noetic structure refers to:
Selected Answer: The relationships between the beliefs we hold
Question 6
3 out of 3 points
Humility helps us fight against intellectual vices like pride and vanity that keep us from seeing the truth.
Selected Answer: True.
Question 7
3 out of 3 points
Carefulness is an intellectual virtue that helps us:
Selected Answer: Examine evidence with caution to avoid drawing poor inferences.
Question 8
3 out of 3 points
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