1. Can God’s existence be established on a priori grounds?
2. Is incompatibilism about free will ultimately motivated by dualism?
3. How, if at all, does fatalism differ from determinism?
4. Should logic aim to capture all valid arguments of English?
5. Are names descriptions?
6. Is there an interesting notion of analyticity?
7. How much weight should we place on our intuitions about particular cases
when deciding which political theory to adopt?
8. ‘We shouldn’t find the idea of objective normativity objectionable, since
meaning is normative and objective.’ Discuss.
9. Does doing moral philosophy make one more moral? What does your answer
suggest about the point of doing moral philosophy?
10. Is the Socratic method as demonstrated in Plato’s Meno a good way of
teaching philosophy?
11. ‘Philosophers today still need to read Descartes; no scientist today need read
Galileo. This suggests that science makes progress but philosophy does not.’
Discuss.
12. ‘Given that gender roles are socially constructed, we must accept our
society’s definitions of the terms “man” and “woman”.’ Discuss.