University of Kansas, Fall 2006
Philosophy 148: Reason and Argument
Ben Eggleston—eggleston@ku.edu

objectives and assignments for chapter 1

After reading and discussing chapter 1, you should be able to answer questions of the types listed in the following table. (Not coincidentally, you can expect to be tested on questions of these types.) In each row, after a description of the question types, there are lists of which examples of these types you should do before class and which examples there will be time devoted to doing in class. Note that while most of the test questions will be of these types, many of them will be examples of these types that you will not have seen previously.

(A note on reading the table: a line of the form ‘A-B, C’ refers to question number C in Exercise A-B. The em dash (the ‘—’ character) means that the exercise number is the same as the one listed for the previous line.)

type description before class on Wednesday, August 23 in class on Wednesday, August 23 before discussion section in discussion section before class on Monday, August 28 in class on Monday, August 28
1 a question about a basic fact about arguments 1-1, 1
—, 2
—, 4
—, 6
—, 7		 1-1, 10
—, 11
—, 14
—, 19		     1-1, 23
—, 24		  
2 a question providing a passage and asking whether it contains an argument or not 1-3, 1
—, 2
—, 3
—, 4		 1-3, 5
—, 6		 1-3, 7
—, 8
—, 9		 1-2, 1
—, 2
—, 3
—, 4
—, 5
—, 6
—, 7
—, 8
—, 9
—, 10		   1-3, 10
—, 11
3 a question providing a passage and statements of possible issues discussed and asking you to select the correct one 1-5, 1
—, 2
—, 3
—, 4
—, 5
—, 6
—, 7		 1-5, 8
—, 9
—, 10		     1-5, 11
—, 12
—, 13
—, 14
—, 15
—, 16
—, 17		 —, 18
—, 19
—, 20
4 a question providing a passage and asking whether it contains an argument or not and, if it does, asking for a statement of its conclusion 1-4, 1
—, 2
—, 3
—, 4
—, 5
—, 6
—, 7		 1-4, 8
—, 9
—, 10		     1-4, 11
—, 12
—, 13
—, 14
—, 15
—, 16
—, 17		 1-4, 18
—, 19
—, 20
5 a question providing utterances from two speakers and asking whether the two speakers are discussing the same issue or not 1-7, 1
—, 2
—, 3
—, 4
—, 5		 1-7, 6
—, 7
—, 8		     1-7, 9
—, 10
—, 11
—, 12		 1-7, 13
—, 14
—, 15
6 a question providing a claim and asking whether it is subjective or not     1-10, 1
—, 2
—, 3
—, 4
—, 5
—, 6
—, 7
—, 8
—, 9
—, 10		 1-9, 1
—, 2
—, 3
—, 4
—, 5
—, 6
—, 7
—, 8
—, 9
—, 10		   1-10, 11
—, 12
—, 13
—, 14
7 a question asking you to give an example of a statement of the form “X because Y” that is an argument         Think of examples of statements these two types—Exercise 1-14 and Exercise 1-15 might help. discussion of examples
8 a question asking you to give an example of a statement of the form ‘X because Y’ that is not an explanation, not an argument        
totals   28 15 13 20 20, plus 2 examples 15, plus some examples

You can get more practice with questions of type 4 with the questions in Exercise 1-6.
You can get more practice with questions of type 5 with the questions in Exercise 1-8.
You can get more practice with questions of type 6 with the questions in Exercise 1-11.