This document contains sample exam questions and passages from a PHIL 447 Final Exam for winter 2016. There are 8 multiple choice and essay questions that assess concepts like logical fallacies, moral relativism, and political doctrines. Sample questions ask students to identify logical fallacies, explain problems with moral relativism, and analyze passages about political beliefs and plagiarism.

1. PHIL 447 FINAL EXAM ESSAYS
WINTER 2016
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PHIL 447 FINAL EXAM ESSAYS WINTER 2016
(TCOs 3, 6, 7, 9) Here is a passage that contains a rhetorical fallacy. Name the fallacy, and in a paragraph, explain why the
argument is irrelevant to the point at issue. Here is your example for this question:
An editorial says, Taxes have jumped by more than 30% in just two years! The governor is working for a balanced state
budget, but it'll be on the backs of us taxpayers; the people who have the very least to spend! It seems pretty clear that
these increased taxes are undermining the social structure in this state. Anybody who isn't angry about this just doesn't
understand the situation and hasn't figured out just how miserable they are. (Points : 15)
Our class instructor has blue eyes, because she had them in a previous incarnation. (Points : 15)
Question 3.3. (TCOs 2, 4) Explain in what way the thinking of the following statement is wrong or defective. Give reasons
for your judgment.
There must be something to palm reading. Millions of people believe in it. (Points : 10)
Question 4.4. (TCOs 3, 9) Moral relativism is the belief that what is right or wrong may differ from group to group, or
culture to culture. What are the difficulties of moral relativism? (Points : 10)
Question 5.5. (TCOs 6, 7, 9) Here is a short essay about an investigation.
Question 6.6. (TCOs 3, 4, 6) Read this passage below. When you have done so, answer these three questions, writing a
paragraph for each question.
Another quality that makes [Texas Republican and former Congressman] Tom DeLay an un-Texas politician is that he's
mean. By and large, Texas pols are an agreeable set of less-than-perfect humans and quite often well-intentioned. As Carl
Parker of Port Arthur used to observe, if you took all the fools out of the [Congress], it would not be a representative body
any longer. The old sense of collegiality was strong, and vindictive behavior punishing pols for partisan reasons was
simply not done. But those are Tom DeLay's specialties, his trademarks. The Hammer is not only genuinely feared in
Washington, he is, I'm sorry to say, hated.
Question 7.7. (TCOs 7, 8) Read this passage below. When you have done so, answer the question in at least one full
paragraph, giving specific reasons.
Elizabeth has a paper due tomorrow morning. She has tried to write something for hours, but has no ideas for a good paper.
Elizabeth remembers that her sorority sister, Deb, said that Elizabeth could use any of Deb’s papers in their sorority house
computer. Elizabeth remembers that Deb wrote a paper on the very same topic the previous semester. Elizabeth decides to
get Deb’s paper off the sorority house computer and leave a note telling Deb what she has done. Elizabeth feels confident
that she has Deb’s permission to do this. Is Elizabeth guilty of plagiarizing? (Points : 20)
Question 8.8. (TCOs 6, 7, 9) Read this passage below. When you have done so, answer these three questions, writing a
paragraph for each question.
Either one thinks that there is no reason for believing any political doctrine or one sees some reason, however shaky, for
the commitment of politics. If a person believes that political doctrines are void of content, that person will be quite
content to see political debates go on, but won't expect anything useful to come from them. If we consider the other case
that there is a patriotic justification for a political belief, then what? If the belief is that a specific political position is true,
then one ought to be intolerant of all other political beliefs, since each political position must be held to be false, relative to
the belief one has. And since each political position holds out the promise of reward for any probability of its fixing social
problems, however small, that makes it seem rational to choose it over its alternatives. The trouble, of course, is that the
people who have other political doctrines may hold theirs just as strongly, making strength of belief itself invalid as a way
to determine the rightness of a political position.