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6. Descartes' arguments gave rise to which philosopical approach to the soul?

  • Identity Theory
  • Substance Dualism
  • Emergent Materialism
  • Property Dualism

7. What was the name of the doubt that Descartes employed?

  • Hyperbolic Doubt
  • Rationalist Doubt
  • Materialist Doubt
  • Dualist Doubt

8. How did Gilbert Ryle describe the idea of the soul?

  • A Useful Fiction
  • A Category Error
  • A Powerful Metaphor

9. Who said: ‘there is no spirit-driven life force, no throbbing, heaving, pullulating, protoplasmic mystic jelly. Life is just bytes and bytes of digital information’?

  • Gilbert Ryle
  • Richard Dawkins
  • Rene Descartes
  • John Locke

10. Identity theory or type physicalism is the idea that...

  • the mind and brain are identical
  • the mind and brain are separate
  • the soul gives rise to identity
  • both body and soul are an illusion

11. What did the psychologist Boring argue about the relationship between mind and brain?

  • The mind animates the brain
  • They are the same thing
  • The brain gives rise to the mind

12. What does ‘cogito ergo sum’ translate as?

  • I think therefore, I am
  • I have an evil demon in my head that tricks me at maths
  • I am, I exist
  • I exist therefore, I think