Philosophy 382
Bradford Skow



			Study Guide for Exam 2 
			
			"*" indicates a question that did not appear on the exam.
			"#" indicates a question that did appear on the exam.
			


*	PEE Lange's argument concerning locality and explanation. 			

#	PEE Lange's argument against (PSR).

*	Present and Explain the argument for (PSR) that Lange discusses. 
	Say which premise a critic of the argument should reject, and why.
	
#	Be prepared to extract an argument from some text. The topic will 
	be connected to the topic of homework 3.

#	Explain, in qualitative terms, why momentum is not conserved in the
	retarded-action-at-a-distance formulation of electromagnetism.

#	Present the argument against the existence of such a stuff as energy. 
	Define all technical terms that appear in the argument. Choose one of
	the rationales for the first premise that was discussed in class. Give
	that rationale. (A good answer will go into much more detail than is given
	on the handout. Among other things, it will make use, at some point, of
	the features energy is supposed to have, if it is a stuff.) 
	
*	Be prepared to define some of the technical terms that Sober uses.

#	There will be a question asking you about an argument against an 
	interpretation of probability.
	
#	What is "the tautology problem?" Do you think it is a problem?

*	There will be a question on material covered the week before the exam.