MAPUA UNIVERSITY

Social Sciences and Humanities Department

Academic Year 2018-2019

Understanding the Self

Midterm Examination

NAME: _______________________________________ SCORE: __________________

I. TRUE OR FALSE. Write T if the statement is correct and F if the statement is wrong.

1. We are what we right now because we want to be like this.

2.Our parents can only influence us while we are in our growing years
3. Our tendencies are completely controllable
4. There are still many things that we haven’t discovered about ourselves
5. Philosophers hold the same views about the self
6. Philosophers used empirical and national lens in explaining the self.
7. Philosophy of self as explained by modern philosophers is more relevant than that of ancient
philosophers
8. Philosophical views of the self are useful guide to having a better life.
9. Self should be studied by older individuals and not by younger generations
10. Philosophy and science share the same views about the self
11. Science explains the biological evolution of the self
12. Science explains how environments and contexts shape the self.
13. The physical aspect of the self is the only scientific standpoint that matters
14. Science makes use of the systematic methodologies in conceptualizing the self.
15. The physical self goes through changes in one’s lifetime
16. One’s parent and relatives are the sole sources of his or her genetic make-up
17. The physical development of adolescents varies
18. Each of us has a unique DNA
19. There are relative standards in beauty.
20. Only science can explain the development of self.

II. MATCHING TYPE:

A. Immanuel Kant
B. Gilbert Ryle
C. Paul Churchland
D. Maurice Ponty
E. None of the above
21. Wrote the Phenomenology of Perception
22. His writings have become influential in naturalizing phenomenology, in which
phenomenologists use the results of psychology and cognitive science.
23. holds that “beliefs” are not ontologically real; that is, he maintains that a future, fully
matured neuroscience is likely to have no need for "beliefs“.
24. Hypothesizes that consciousness might be explained in terms of a recurrent neural
network with its hub in the intralaminar nucleus of the thalamus
25. Characterized the mind as a set of capacities and abilities belonging to the body, thus, the
workings of the mind are not distinct from the actions of the body, but are one and the same.
26. He concluded that adequate descriptions of human behaviour need never refer to anything
but the operations of human bodies
27. He dismissed the idea that nature is a complex machine, and that human nature is a smaller
machine with a "ghost" in it to account for intelligence, spontaneity and other such human
qualities.
28. Emphasized the theory on “Categorical Imperative”
29. He asserted that each person is his own moral agent, and we should only be responsible
for our own actions, not those of others.
30. His belief that all people are fundamentally rational beings.