Question
Gilbert Ryle coined the term "ghost in the machine" to criticize this philosopher's mind-body dualism. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this French philosopher who wrote Meditations on First Philosophy.
ANSWER: René Descartes [accept Cartesian dualism]
[10h] In The Concept of Mind, Ryle argues Descartes' dualism is one of these mistakes. Ryle demonstrates these mistakes by imagining a visitor to Oxford being shown its buildings and then asking "where is the university?"
ANSWER: category mistakes [or category errors; accept word forms like categorical errors]
[10m] Wilfrid Sellars imagined the Ryleans, a tribe who interact with a non-Cartesian mind, in a book titled for this view and the Philosophy of Mind. W. V. O. Quine attacked logical positivism in an essay titled "Two Dogmas of [this view]."
ANSWER: empiricism [accept word forms; accept Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind; accept "Two Dogmas of Empiricism"]
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| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
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| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 38 | 17.63 | 103% | 61% | 13% |