PrepTest 115, Section 1, Question 24

Working the answers

• A

  There is a real connection here: paragraph two mentions scientific claims conflicting with introspective data. But that describes when subjectivists resist appeals to science. Their stated argument for rejecting an objective-only approach is broader: experience includes subjective experience, so restricting knowledge to objective data excludes a legitimate source. B gives us that argument directly.

• B
  Correct

  They object to reducing knowledge to information accessible through objective observation alone (paragraph 2). If knowledge also comes from subjective experience, an approach that rules it out restricts the experience philosophers can use. That's our prediction.

• C

  They don't complain that only specialists can interpret scientific data. Their objection concerns which kinds of evidence count, not who has the expertise to interpret them.

• D

  They want subjective experience included; they don't say scientific information has no relevance to philosophical questions. The author later discusses a missing common context between the camps, which is a different claim.

• E

  Both camps are studying the mind. The dispute is about how to study it, not whether the questions fall outside philosophy's traditional subject matter.