Phaedrus' Exam

Death and Madness in the Phaedo and Phaedrus

READERS OF PLATO’S dialogues would recognize a constantly renewed desire to define philosophy and to distinguish it from sophistry, rhetoric, poetry, etc. One suspects that this attempt to delimit philosophy as a discourse is itself what philosophizing is. In Plato, reflexivity is already inscribed into the nature of philosophical activity. The Phaedo and the Phaedrus are two of Plato’s dialogu...

Exam 2

(30 pts) 1. You have been requested to troubleshoot problems with a well stirred reactor in your Texas chemical production plant. After taking the red eye flight and a long taxi ride to your hotel and then the plant your arrive exhausted, but eager to solve this problem. Apparently the problem with this 165 L reactor is that the conversion of the reactant, Anychemical, is too low at XA = 0.53. ...

Exam fairness

It is widely agreed that exams must be fair; yet what this exactly means is not made clear. One may mean fairness of treatment, but this merely propagates the fairness or unfairness of pre-existing rules. Fairness of opportunity on the other hand necessarily leads to identical grades for everyone, which clearly makes it inapplicable. Neither view is helpful to make decisions on competing claims...

Foundation Exam

First, we prove the function g is an injection (i.e., g is one-to-one). We need to prove that if g(m) = g(n) --(1), where m and n are two integers, then m = n --(2). Since g(m) (and also g(n)) can be defined by two different formulas depending whether the argument m (and n) is even or odd, we consider the following 3 cases: (Case 1) Both m and n are even. In this case, (1) implies 1 – m = 1 – n...

Comprehensive Exam