1. Descartes thought that animals were mere automatons or machines.
Was he right?
2. What, if anything, can science contribute to the study of questions in
metaphysics?
3. Should what we say about metaphysics be constrained by what we
know to be true in ethics?
4. Is the development of artificial intelligence a good way to gain a better
understanding of ourselves?
5. Are there any advantages to writing a work of philosophy as a
dialogue?
6. Should philosophy be politically neutral?
7. Can metaethical sceptics continue to think ethically?
8. ‘In philosophy, anything can be called into question, but not everything
can be called into question at the same time.’ Discuss.
9. What ethical principles should govern undergraduate admissions to
universities?
10. ‘The fact that all philosophical arguments rely on our intuitions means
that philosophy can never give us knowledge of the world, only of
ourselves.’ Discuss.
11. Are Grice’s views on speaker meaning just armchair speculations
about the empirical subject of linguistics?
12. Is ‘I exist’ a contingent a priori truth?