Comprehensive exams

Below are links to all of the PhD comprehensive exams that have been administered in the Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M University and to the memos and reading lists that were distributed in advance of them.

  1. Comprehensive exams on ethics and value theory:
    1. 2004c: memo/reading list [RTF], exam [RTF].
    2. 2005c: memo/reading list [RTF], exam [MSWord].
    3. 2007a: memo/reading list [MSWord], exam [MSWord].
    4. 2008a: memo [PDF], reading list [HTML], exam [MSWord].
    5. 2008b: memo [PDF], reading list [HTML], exam [MSWord].
    6. 2009b: memo/reading list [PDF], on-line version of reading list [HTML] (the exam was never administered).
    7. 2010b: memo/reading list [PDF]
    8. 2010c: exam [PDF]
    9. 2011b: memo/reading list [PDF]

  2. Comprehensive exams in the history of philosophy:
    1. 2005a: memo/reading list [PDF], exam [PDF].
    2. 2008c: memo/reading list [PDF] (the exam was never administered).
    3. 2009b: memo/reading list [PDF], exam [MSWord].
    4. 2009c: same memo/reading list as 2009b, exam [MSWord].
    5. 2010a: memo/reading list [PDF] exam [PDF].
    6. 2010b: memo/reading list [PDF]

  3. Comprehensive exams in metaphysics and epistemology:
    1. 2006c: memo/reading list [MSWord], exam [PDF].
    2. 2010c: memo/reading list [PDF], exam.