True or False


1	John Dewey was primarily interested in abstract metaphysical issues.
		A)	True
		B)	False


2	The logical positivists rejected metaphysical and moral claims as meaningless nonsense.
		A)	True
		B)	False


3	Bertrand Russell argued that the world consists of many independent atomic facts rather than a single all-encompassing Hegelian Oneness.
		A)	True
		B)	False


4	Phenomenalists believe that there are no physical objects, just sense data.
		A)	True
		B)	False


5	The perceived failure of phenomenalism led philosophers like Richard Rorty to adopt a foundationalist view of knowledge.
		A)	True
		B)	False


6	According to W. V. O. Quine, physical objects are theoretical posits, not constructs out of sense data.
		A)	True
		B)	False


7	Rorty adopts a nonrealist, nonrepresentationalist conception of truth as that which meets the current standards of rationality of a particular group of speakers.
		A)	True
		B)	False


8	Dualism is a physicalist viewpoint in the philosophy of mind.
		A)	True
		B)	False


9	Behaviorists like Gilbert Ryle believe that mental-state talk can always be translated into precise sets of behaviors or behavioral dispositions.
		A)	True
		B)	False


10	Identity theorists and functionalists agree that each particular mental state of a person is identical with a specific state of that person's brain or central nervous system.
		A)	True
		B)	False

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