Review Quiz #1
1. The tasks for each week are listed at the top of our webpage: In order: (1) Do the reading while (2) answering the Reading Questions, then (3) use Jeff’s lectures to correct and add clarity to your answers, then (4) take the Friday Quiz.
2. The absolute deadline for quizzes and exams is Saturday at noon.
3. The best prep for the Friday quizzes is the Reading Questions, because most of the quiz comes straight from those questions. (Note: But please be sure to read the questions carefully, because there are some subtle differences from the reading questions that I want you to think about. You can paste some of your reading questions answers straight over, but this won’t work for all of the quiz questions.)
4. The Friday quizzes cannot be made up, but there are many extra points built into the class to make up for missing a quiz or two. These extra points are built into every quiz and exam (they are not extra credit assignments).
5. Grades are based on earning points. For example, a “B” is earned when you get 80 points. (Note: It is not a percentage; that’s way harder. Out of the 130 possible points, 80 points is only 61%…you see, Jeff is a softy).
6. Philosophy is the study of the presuppositions in all fields of thought. (Note: Philosophy is the home of genuine critical thinking, carefully checking the support for all of our ideas, even the ones that we assume are obvious.)
