PHIL 111: Introduction to Philosophy

Spring 2003

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Final Exam Review

The final exam will be held in our regular classroom on Monday, May 5^th—please consult exam schedule for specific time for your section.

The exam will consist of multiple choice questions and one essay.

I. Multiple Choice

A. Fallacies

1. Begging the question

2. Ad Hominem

3. Ad Populum

4. Straw Man

B. Conceptual Analysis

1. Conditional Claims

2. Necessary Condition

3. Sufficient Condition

C. Argument Forms/Strategies

1. Reductio Ad Absurdum

2. Refutation by Logical Analogy

3. Dilemma

D. Argument Evaluation Concepts

1. Deductive Concepts

a. Validity

b. Soundness

2. Inductive Concepts

a. Strength

b. Cogency

E. Content Distinctions

1. a priori vs. a posteriori

2. necessity vs. possibility

F. Truth-Functional Logic

1. Translations

a. negations

b. conjunctions

c. disjunctions

d. conditionals

2. Logical Truth

a. tautologies

b. contradictions

c. contingencies

G. Searle

1. “Can Computers Think?”

2. “Freedom of the Will”

II. Essay:

What do you think about the nature, function and value of philosophy?

Compare/contrast your view to some of those that we have studied (Plato, Descartes, Ayer).