Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ariadne's Thread.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does consilience work?
(a) By providing different models for the same behavior.
(b) By providing a context and a practical consequence to each scientific study.
(c) By breaking things down and putting them back together.
(d) By making science relevant to the humanities.

2. What does Wilson credit animals with being able to see?
(a) The present moment.
(b) The world beyond the spectrum of our vision.
(c) The urgency of nature.
(d) The causes beneath their actions.

3. How does Wilson explain the ideal scientist's work ethic?
(a) Think like poets, work like bookkeepers.
(b) Think like children, work like fathers.
(c) Think like whales, work like minnows.
(d) Think like eagles, work like ants.

4. What idea of Locke's survived the Enlightenment into Romanticism?
(a) The idea of transcendent experiences.
(b) The idea mystical states.
(c) The idea of natural rights.
(d) The idea of inevitable progress.

5. What subject would Wilson like to see more of in undergraduate education?
(a) Sciences.
(b) Arts.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Humanities.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Wilson's account, why did the French Revolution fail?

2. What is Wilson ultimately interested in producing with consilience?

3. When does sleep occur, in molecular terms?

4. How has the postmodern fragmentation of knowledge affected consilience, in Wilson's account??

5. What does Wilson say evidence from the natural sciences says about Enlightenment thinkers?

(see the answer key)

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