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PHI 2394 B00 · exam 2 · Wednesday 11 November

Practice for exam 2

Everything after exam 1: weeks 6 to 9. One page a week, cut into parts so it is obvious where the reading for one class stops.

How these work, and when to use them

A set is built in two passes, and the tag on each question says which pass it came from. Questions marked from the reading are written from the chapters and can be answered from them. Questions marked from the lecture come from her posted notes and appear after the class has happened.

So the same page does two jobs. Do the reading questions the day you read, before the lecture. Come back after the lecture for the ones that were added, and again in November for the whole thing.

  1. Read the chapter, then do that part cold. Guessing before you know and then being corrected beats studying first.
  2. Write short answers out before opening the model. Reading a model answer you have not attempted teaches close to nothing, and the short answers are where the marks move on an exam that has them.
  3. After the lecture, come back for the new questions. They are the ones that tell you where the weight actually falls.
  4. In November, run the whole page again. Re-testing something you answered weeks ago is the highest-value hour available.

The sets

Week 6 · 14 October · 29 multiple choice, 6 short answer

How do we know, and what don't we know

Crasnow and Intemann ch. 4 and ch. 5. The nine phases and the rod and frame case, then Longino, Harding and Wylie. Then agnotology, Tuana's five kinds of ignorance, and the five ways ignorance gets made. One class this week, so both chapters belong to it.

Week 7 · 19 to 21 October · not built yet

Values in science and science for the people

Four chapters of the Routledge Handbook: Du Châtelet, feminist philosophy of biology, values in science, and science for the people. Two classes, and the reading guide does not say which chapters go with which day, so the parts will be by chapter until that is known.

Weeks 8 and 9 · November · not built yet

Feminist philosophy of disability

Tremain, Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability. Ch. 1 groundwork and ch. 2 power and normalization for week 8, then ch. 5 on bioethics as a technology of government for week 9. The readings still have to be fetched.