1. A most significant development in the past 30 years is the study of:
A) cognitive science
B) spatial reality
C) geology
D) animal biology

2. Almost every theory in science conflicts with some
A) observations
B) truth
C) absolutes
D) logic
3. Galileo s most long lasting contribution to science is in:
A) chemistry
B) mechanics
C) astronomy
D) art
4. Which of the following is essential to doing good philosophy of
science?
A) ignoring the history of science to be more forward looking
B) a PhD in geological philosophy
C) a PhD in world history
D) understanding the history of science
5. What constitutes the first important step in the development of the
modern scientific world view
A) Newtonian Revolution
B) Copernican Revolution
C) Granthamian Revolution
D) Keplerian Revolution
6. Which of the following are Not experimental sciences?
A) chemistry
B) physics
C) astronomy
D) biology

7. Who developed a mechanical philosophy wherein the physical world consists
of inert particles that interact with one another?
A) Newton
B) Copernicus
C) Boyle
D) Descartes
8. Which of the following techniques enable scientists to discover many
secrets of nature?
A) theory construction
B) observation
C) experimentation
D) all of the above
9. Galileo s promotion of using experimental testing was the beginning of
what approach to studying the world?
A) Copernicism
B) Platonism
C) Empiricism
D) Aristotelianism
10. What is the principal task of the philosophy of science?
A) analyze methods of inquiry used in science
B) promote scientific achievement
C) promote all sciences equally
D) analyze scientific discoveries for material gain

11. Which of the following developments changed the outlook of physics in
the 20th century?
A) quantum mechanics
B) relativity theory
C) both a and b
D) neither a nor b
12. The scientific revolution reached its high point with the work of:
A) Descartes
B) Copernicus
C) Newton
D) Galileo
13. Which of the following is the most fundamental of the sciences?

A) biology
B) chemistry
C) physics
D) all of the above
14. What did Galileo use to describe the activity of objects in
the material world?
A) Chinese
B) Mathematics
C) English
D) French
15. According to Karl Popper, what is the fundamental feature of a
scientific theory
A) absoluteness
B) insight
C) relevance
D) falsifiability
16. The development of modern physics owes much to the work of:
A) Galileo Galilei
B) Johannes Kepler
C) both a and b
D) neither a nor b
17. One way to look at science is to see it as the attempt to understand,
explain, and __________ the world we live in.
A) cope with
B) free
C) predict
18. Which physics replaced Cartesian physics and was prominent for almost
200 years into the 20th century?
A) Newtonian physics
B) Copernican physics
C) None of the above
D) Einsteinian physics
19. In the 18th and 19th centuries, significant scientific achievement
occurred in:
A) chemistry
B) thermodynamics
C) optics
D) all of the above
20. What revolution in biology occurred in the mid 20th century?
A) biological geology
B) molecular genetics
C) laser taxonomy
D) none of the above