PHI 030: Quizzes

This page contains practice quizzes. Some will have been given in class for participation points, others not. Feel free to take these as many times as you like.

Test 1 Questions

Carnap on empirical and theoretical laws

Stace on forces and fictions

Toulmin Questions

Toulmin, Stace and Fictions (from May 11)

Study Guide: An entry for this question might read something like: For Stephen Toulmin, when do sub-microscopic entities become more than useful fictions?

Toulmin on 'producing' neutrinos (from May 13)

Study Guide: An entry for this question might read something like: Understand why Stephen Toulmin thinks the issue of 'producing' sub-microscopic entities is so fraught.

Toulmin on the beliefs of scientists (posted: May 15)

Study Guide: An entry for this question might read something like: Understand why Stephen Toulmin thinks realists misunderstand the ontological commitments of scientists.

Maxwell Question

Maxwell on ontological ice (from May 27)

Matheson and Kline Question

Matheson and Kline on faulty assumptions (from May 27)