Phil 100 F14: Quizzes

Quiz 9 (12/3): Please write your name and "Quiz 9" at the top of your paper. Then answer the following questions:
  1. According to Frankfurt, which is worse a lie or bullshit (1 point)? Why (2 points)?
  2. According to Frankfurt, what is one reason why there is so much bullshit (3 points)?
  3. What is one criticism of the media articulated in the Bill Moyers interview with Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman (4 points)?

Quiz 8 (11/19): Please write your name and "Quiz 8" at the top of your paper. Then answer the following questions:
  1. What is Frankfurt's aim or objective in "On Bullshit"? (2 points)
  2. Black defines humbug as “deceptive misrepresentation, short of lying, especially by pretentious word or deed, of somebody’s own thoughts, feelings, or attitudes.” What are two issues that Frankfurt raises with this definition? (4 points each)

Quiz 7 (10/29): Please write your name and "Quiz 7" at the top of your paper. Then answer the following question:
  1. Briefly explain the five Criteria of Adequacy. (2 points each)

Quiz 6 (10/22): Please write your name and "Quiz 6" at the top of your paper. Then answer the following questions:
  1. Briefly explain Hume's Maxim (4 points)
  2. Briefly describe the three foundational axioms of science (2 points each).

    Quiz 5 (10/15): Please write your name and "Quiz 5" at the top of your paper. Then answer the following questions:
    1. Explain the difference between a cold and hot reading (4 points).
    2. Explain one of the memory experiments conducted by Elizabeth Loftus (4 points).
    3. What is one implication these memory experiments have on our attitudes towards criminal justice (2 points)?
    Quiz 3 (9/15): Please write your name and "Quiz 3" at the top of your paper. Then draw truth tables for the negation, conjunction, disjunction, and conditional. Each truth table is worth 2.5 points.

    Quiz 2     (9/3): Please write your name and "Quiz 2" at the top of your paper. Then answer the following questions:
    1. In class we discussed four types or functions of definitions. Briefly explain three of them. (2 points each).
    2. In class we discussed three ways to define. Briefly explain two of them. (2 points each)

    Quiz 1     (8/25): Please write your name and "Quiz 1" at the top of your paper. Then answer the following questions:
    1. What are two reasons our author, Normand Baillargeon, gives for why he wrote our textbook? (2 points each)
    2. List and briefly describe three of the five functions of language we discussed in class. (2 points each)
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