Philosophy 104: Introduction to Ethics
Russell Marcus, Instructor
Queens College, Spring 2006
The Final Exam will be given on Friday, May 19, at 1:30pm, in Powdermaker 153. (Note that I had announced the wrong time in class.)
It will consist of sixteen questions, culled from the following boldfaced questions on Reading Guides #6-9.
You will be asked to answer ten of them.
Only the following questions may be on the exam:
RG#6: Abortion
Roe v Wade: 1
Thomson: 1, 2, 3, 5
Warren: 3, 4, 5, 6
Marquis: 1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 16, 17
RG#7: Paternalism and Drugs
Mill, "On Liberty": 2, 3, 12
Goodin: 3, 5, 7
Szasz: 5, 6, 7, 14
Shapiro: 1, 10
RG#8: Capital Punishment
Gregg v Georgia: 3, 10, 11, 12
Perlmutter: 1, 4, 5, 8, 11
van den Haag, "The Ultimate Punishment": 5, 7, 13, 16
Reiman: 4, 9, 11, 13
van den Haag, "Refuting Reiman": 3, 5
RG#9: Marriage and Family
Joseph: 2, 5
Bennett: 1, 4
Sullivan: 3, 5
Posner: 3, 5, 12, 14
LaFollette: 2, 4, 9, 15
Click here for full versions of all the questions.
Neither notes nor texts will be allowed to be used during the exam.
Please remember that you must hand in your exam before leaving the classroom for any reason.
If you leave the room, you will not be permitted to return and resume the exam.
At the beginning of this term, I mentioned that success in this course depends on being able to discuss a) what the philosophers say; b) why they say it; and c) whether they are right or wrong (i.e. provide some considered critical comments). I do not expect you to provide each of these for each question on the exam. But the best papers will include elements of critical analysis as well as the more mudane explication of the readings.
Feel free to email me with any questions, or sample answers, for my feedback.