Test #1

Test #1 will be held at the beginning of class on Tuesday, October 4th. You will have about 25 minutes to take it. There will be a section on evaluating deductive arguments, a section of short answer questions on the topics we discussed in class so far:

• philosophy in general
• doing philosophy
• understanding and evaluating arguments
• types of arguments: deductive and abductive (inferences to the best explanation)
• what is knowledge?
• skepticism
• Descartes battling skepticism

The test is worth 150 points (15% of your overall grade).