1. Does perceptual experience essentially involve a relationship to a
mind-independent object, to a mind-dependent object, or to neither of
these? Why does the question matter?
2. Is knowledge analysable into believing truly and some further
conditions?
3. ‘Sceptical scenarios threaten knowledge only in the seminar room.’
Discuss.
4. EITHER: a) Can my belief be justified by factors that are cognitively
inaccessible to me?
OR: b) Are externalists in a better position to respond to sceptical
arguments?
5. Can functionalists account for mental causation?
6. Could a Martian – with a physical make-up completely different from
ours – feel pain?
7. EITHER: a) ‘It is in principle impossible to explain how pain arises from
purely physical properties and processes. Therefore, pain is not
identical to any such properties or processes.’ Discuss.
OR: b) What is the best argument against physicalism? Does it
succeed?
8. EITHER: a) If we answer ‘yes’ to the question ‘Are there ways things
might have been?’ are we committed to modal realism?
OR: b) Why should anyone care what happens in other possible
worlds?
9. ‘There are no primary qualities.’ Could this be true?
10. ‘We may know matters of fact a priori.’ Discuss.