Exam Review
August 29
1. Name two
of the ways you can earn a base in our class. (See "course
requirements" & other info in the sidebar & on the syllabus)
2. How many bases must you earn each class, to "circle the diamond" and claim your daily participation run on the scorecard?
3. How do you earn your first base in each class?
4. Can you earn bases from the daily quiz if you're not present?
5. How can you earn bases on days when you're not present?
6. Suppose you came to class one day, turned on the computer/projector and opened the CoPhi site,and had posted a comment, a discussion question, an alternate quiz question, AND a link to a relevant YouTube video before class. Did you earn your daily participation run?
7. Did you have any "extra bases" in the scenario posed in the previous question?
8. How can you indicate extra bases on the scorecard?
9. What are Dr. Oliver's office hours? Where is his office? What is his email address?
2. How many bases must you earn each class, to "circle the diamond" and claim your daily participation run on the scorecard?
3. How do you earn your first base in each class?
4. Can you earn bases from the daily quiz if you're not present?
5. How can you earn bases on days when you're not present?
6. Suppose you came to class one day, turned on the computer/projector and opened the CoPhi site,and had posted a comment, a discussion question, an alternate quiz question, AND a link to a relevant YouTube video before class. Did you earn your daily participation run?
7. Did you have any "extra bases" in the scenario posed in the previous question?
8. How can you indicate extra bases on the scorecard?
9. What are Dr. Oliver's office hours? Where is his office? What is his email address?
September 3
Ch1
1. Who has frequently been held up by philosophers as a paradigm of happiness?
2. What nation did Gallup find to be happiest in terms of daily experience?
3. What does Haybron say will most likely NOT be on your deathbed list of things you'd like to experience again before you go?
4. What was Aristotle's word for happiness, and what did he particularly not mean by it?
5. Which of Haybron's three happiness theories is not mainly concerned with feelings?
6. Why does Haybron consider "subjective well-being" unhelpful?
1. Who has frequently been held up by philosophers as a paradigm of happiness?
2. What nation did Gallup find to be happiest in terms of daily experience?
3. What does Haybron say will most likely NOT be on your deathbed list of things you'd like to experience again before you go?
4. What was Aristotle's word for happiness, and what did he particularly not mean by it?
5. Which of Haybron's three happiness theories is not mainly concerned with feelings?
6. Why does Haybron consider "subjective well-being" unhelpful?
7. How
does the author's Dad describe existence "on the Pond"?
8. What does Big Joe the commercial fisherman feel at the end of his working day, and how does he feel generally?
9. Your posture or stride reveals something deeper than what?
10. The author says moments like the one depicted in the photo on p.18 involve no what?
8. What does Big Joe the commercial fisherman feel at the end of his working day, and how does he feel generally?
9. Your posture or stride reveals something deeper than what?
10. The author says moments like the one depicted in the photo on p.18 involve no what?
11. Who developed the
notion of flow?
12. Tranquility,
confidence, and expansiveness are aspects of what state of mind/body?
13. Though your temperament may be more or less fixed, your ___ may be more or less prone to change with circumstances.
13. Though your temperament may be more or less fixed, your ___ may be more or less prone to change with circumstances.
14. What famous western
Buddhist says happiness is an optimal state of being, much more than a feeling?
September 5
Haybron ch3-4, Life Satisfaction
& Measuring Happiness
1. Is satisfaction with your life the same as thinking it's going well?
1. Is satisfaction with your life the same as thinking it's going well?
2. Does rating your life satisfaction
provide reliably objective insight into your degree of happiness?
3. In what sense do "most people actually have good lives"?
4. Can the science of happiness tell us which groups tend to be happier?
3. In what sense do "most people actually have good lives"?
4. Can the science of happiness tell us which groups tend to be happier?
5. What (verbally-expressed,
non-numerical) ratio of positive over negative emotional states does
happiness probably require?
6. What percentage of American college students said they'd considered suicide?
6. What percentage of American college students said they'd considered suicide?
September 10
Haybron 5-6-The Sources of Happiness;
Beyond Happiness: Well-being
1. According to Haybron, is it credible to claim that genetics render some people incapable of being happier?
2. What do studies show about consumerist materialism and intrinsic motivation?
3. At what $ level do happiness and income "cease to show a pretty substantial link"?
4. What does an Aristotelian nature-fulfillment theory of happiness find objectionable about the experience machine scenario?
5. What do Desire theories have trouble explaining?
6. How might a philosophical theory of well-being settle the strivers vs. enjoyers debate?
1. According to Haybron, is it credible to claim that genetics render some people incapable of being happier?
2. What do studies show about consumerist materialism and intrinsic motivation?
3. At what $ level do happiness and income "cease to show a pretty substantial link"?
4. What does an Aristotelian nature-fulfillment theory of happiness find objectionable about the experience machine scenario?
5. What do Desire theories have trouble explaining?
6. How might a philosophical theory of well-being settle the strivers vs. enjoyers debate?
September 12
1. More important than whether you're
happy, says Haybron, is what?
2. What makes civilization possible?
3. As a general rule, says Haybron, selfish and shallow people don't look _____.
4. A more demanding notion of the good life must meet what standard?
5. Does Haybron recommend scheduling quality family time?
6. What does Kahneman say about "focusing illusions"?
2. What makes civilization possible?
3. As a general rule, says Haybron, selfish and shallow people don't look _____.
4. A more demanding notion of the good life must meet what standard?
5. Does Haybron recommend scheduling quality family time?
6. What does Kahneman say about "focusing illusions"?
September 17
Ch1
1. For most of history, Epicureanism has
conjured what image? Did J.S. Mill share that view?
2. Epicureanism asserted that there's "nothing to be feared or hope for" from what?
2. Epicureanism asserted that there's "nothing to be feared or hope for" from what?
3. What Epicurean view did Cicero agree
with? What alternative doctrines contrary to Epicurus's did Stoics subscribe
to?
4. How did early Christians and Muslims regard Epicureanism?
4. How did early Christians and Muslims regard Epicureanism?
Ch 2
1. How did the Epicureans come to believe
in the early theory of atoms?
2. What pre-Socratic philosopher deemed the theory of atomism impossible?
3. By what time did an early version of Epicurean atomism become popular?
4. How did Epicureanism eventually become compatible with Christian doctrine?
2. What pre-Socratic philosopher deemed the theory of atomism impossible?
3. By what time did an early version of Epicurean atomism become popular?
4. How did Epicureanism eventually become compatible with Christian doctrine?
September 19
Ch 3
1. What was the aim of scientific
understanding, for Bacon and Descartes? 31
2. What were Locke's and Hume's laments? 33
3. How was Aristotle both correct and incorrect about how the seasons changed? Pg. 27 (Max)
4. What did the Epicureans regard as the most important contribution of philosophy to life? p. 28 (Ed)
2. What were Locke's and Hume's laments? 33
3. How was Aristotle both correct and incorrect about how the seasons changed? Pg. 27 (Max)
4. What did the Epicureans regard as the most important contribution of philosophy to life? p. 28 (Ed)
Ch 4
1. What was Epicurus's view of soul? 38
2. The Epicureans were the target of what ostensibly-Stoic argument for the view that the universe was made for us? 41
3. What do the life cycles of plants and animals indicate? Pg. 39 (Max)
4. What were the two Epicurean ideas that helped bridge the apparent gap between non-existence and the richly populated world, and the gap between matter and life? p. 44 (Ed)
2. The Epicureans were the target of what ostensibly-Stoic argument for the view that the universe was made for us? 41
3. What do the life cycles of plants and animals indicate? Pg. 39 (Max)
4. What were the two Epicurean ideas that helped bridge the apparent gap between non-existence and the richly populated world, and the gap between matter and life? p. 44 (Ed)
September 24
Ch 5
1. How did the Epicureans depart from the Platonic and Aristotelian traditions? 52
2. The standards of meaning and truth are what, for Epicurus? 55
3. Epicureans believe that our beliefs about the physical world ought to be recognized as true or false how? (p. 59) Ed
4. What alternatives to materialism appeared between the 17th and 18th centuries? Pg. 63 (Max)
1. How did the Epicureans depart from the Platonic and Aristotelian traditions? 52
2. The standards of meaning and truth are what, for Epicurus? 55
3. Epicureans believe that our beliefs about the physical world ought to be recognized as true or false how? (p. 59) Ed
4. What alternatives to materialism appeared between the 17th and 18th centuries? Pg. 63 (Max)
Ch 6
1. Epicurean gods have no what? 69
2. What is the Epicurean hope, with regard
to the human tendency to invoke or solicit divine intervention in our lives? 72
3. What gave the clergy control and
powers of preservation over philosophical texts in the middle ages? Pg. 73
(Max)
4. What does Epicurean philosophy offer non-believers? (p. 80) Ed
4. What does Epicurean philosophy offer non-believers? (p. 80) Ed
September 26
You will need to get these from the quiz
once they are posted.
Good luck everyone! 😊
Thanks, Kathryn.
ReplyDeleteOf course, we know what the old baseball philosopher Branch Rickey said: Luck is the residue of design. In other words, we make our own luck (to an extent).
Thank You, Kathryn!
ReplyDeleteThat's very appreciated, and well needed!