Information Regarding the Final Examination

The Final will be given on Friday, December 17, 11am - 1pm.

There will be twelve questions on the exam, culled from Reading Guides 2-5.

You will be asked to answer ten of these.

Each question will be worth 10 points.

Neither notes nor texts will be allowed to be used during the exam.

The questions will be taken from the following list:

Locke: 2, 8, 9, 11

Berkeley: 4, 7, 10, 17, 21, 25, 28, 31, 38, 43, 62, 63, 72, 74, 76, 81

Hume: 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 28, 34, 56, 62, 67, 70

Plato: 4, 5, 10, 22, 27, 33, 34, 41, 45, 46, 48

Please note that this list is much shorter than the list of boldfaced questions on the Reading Guides.

I'm hoping that less is more. That is, I'm hoping that you will be able to spend more time working on understanding the core issues with fewer questions to study.

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.

A general guideline I use for grading, which is not applicable in all cases, is as follows:

C's) Representing accurately what a philosopher says

B's) Describing in detail why (s)he says it, i.e. the arguments for the position

A's) Arguing either for or against that position.