DUE: October 27, in class.

POINTS: 90 points, 30 short answer questions

DOCUMENTS: last year's midterm (note that it had an essay component, which I've removed).

DESCRIPTION: The midterm will cover:

In detail:

Greek philosophy and natural science, according to the lecture slides, cast, and ideas/experiments links and assigned readings.

Medieval philosophy and natural science, according to the lecture slides, cast, and ideas/experiments links and assigned readings.

Scientific knowledge, especially the historicist approaches, the 17th and 18th century philosophies, and the ideas on observation (in no more detail than we discussed it in class). The best source of details are those from the Okasha readings. Aristotelean and inductive Logic as we discussed it are included.

Renaissance natural science, according to the lecture slides, cast, and ideas/experiments links and assigned readings.

Enlightenment physics, according to the lecture slides, cast, and ideas/experiments links and assigned readings...through the material from Wednesday's lecture.

Only generalities:

The Scientifiic Knowledge sections prior to the historicist theories. The best source is again, the Okasha readings.

What will not be tested:

the art.

Newton's Third Law (to be covered next Monday).

dates, historical details, obscure names (I'll expect you to know the people in the Cast...for example you'll note that although I mentioned Mr Cavendish in class, he's not listed in the Cast. You should take it from that omission that Cavendish is not a part of the testable story. Get it?)

A good way to study: read your journals and have no misunderstandings about our quizzes.

The questions will be identical in spirit to the quizzes, answerable with phrases, pictures, and few words.

I will not test you on matters that I did not cover in the lectures. In that sense, I treat the readings as background, more detail, and/or a different description of what I covered in class. So, there will be no searching the readings for things that were not covered in class.

um...Don't freak.