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| Time: | Tuesday May 14 3:30 - 5:30 |
| Where: | Arjona 215 |
Professor Hiskes will not have office hours on Wednesday, May 8, but will have special office hours on Friday, May 10, 12:30-2:00 and Monday, May 13, 1:30-3:30 for students who wish to pick up their papers or discuss course material. Appointments are available for other times.
Professor Holsinger will have office hours on Tuesday, May 7 from 10:00-12:00 and on Friday, May 10 from 3:00-5:00 for students who want to discuss course material. Appointments are available for other times.
The exam covers all course material and assigned READINGS not covered on the midterm beginning with the topic “The Objectivity of Observation” originally scheduled for March 4. It does not include any of the material on the syllabus under “Part IV Paradigms”. The material is cumulative in the sense that certain basic concepts such as testability, the likelihood principle, observational evidence, and entrenchment are presupposed throughout the course.
The exam will be constructed from questions given on the Study Guides: Study Guide #4 (Realism & Empiricism) Questions 8 – 14; Study Guide #5 (Ellis 1); Study Guide #6 (Ellis 2); Study Guide #7 (Paradigms in biology); Study Guide #8 (Human Nature after Darwin); and a few questions on environmental ethics and the religion/science relationship that will be handed out on Monday, May 6.
The exam will most likely consist of two approximately equal parts. For Part A you will be asked to answer questions from study guides #4-6. For Part B you will be asked to answer question from study guides #7-8 and the last set of questions TBA. You will be given some choice – e.g. answer 3 out of 4 or answer 4 out of 5. There could be a part C in which you are asked to answer 1 out of 2 longer discussion questions.
The intended time for taking the exam will be about an hour, but you will have two hours.
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