BQE Text SP25
April 26 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The text portion of the Basic Qualifying Exam (BQE) will be held on Saturday April 26th 2025 from 1:00pm–4:00pm. The room location is tbd. (If students have reason or cause for taking the exam remotely, please contact Prof. Rosenkrantz.) Please get settled before the exam, and arrive early as needed. Bring a laptop.
The two texts for this spring semester are:
Text 1: S. Collins (2019). Collective responsibility gaps. Journal of Business Ethics, 154: 943–954.
Text 2: J. J. C. Smart (1959). Sensations and brain processes. Philosophical Review, 68: 141–156.
Students are responsible for retrieving the texts. (For certain pedagogical reasons, the Graduate Committee deliberately does not post them anywhere. Both articles are easily available via the CSULB library, BeachReach, and so forth. Use the skills learned in the proseminar.)
For general information about the BQE, feel free to consult the graduate handbook. Additionally, Prof. Rosenkrantz may be organizing a BQE orientation meeting (details forthcoming if so).
It is in graduate students’ interests to attempt and pass the BQE as soon as possible. Normally, for most students and most circumstances, this piece of advice implies taking it in one’s first semester in the program.