1. ‘Locke’s notion of substance is completely obscure.’ Discuss.
2. Discuss Locke’s and/or Leibniz’s metaphors for explaining the origins of
our ideas.
3. Whose arguments on innatism are stronger, Locke’s or Leibniz’s?
4. Leibniz held that ‘every substance is like a complete world and like a
mirror of God.’ Discuss.
5. Did Leibniz solve the mind-body problem?
6. Describe and assess Berkeley’s case against abstract ideas.
7. Could an atheist be a Berkeleian idealist?
8. Compare and contrast Berkeley’s and Hume’s attitudes towards spiritual
substance.
9. EITHER (a) Discuss the difference between impressions and ideas
according to Hume.
OR (b) ‘The idea of space is nothing but a copy of these colour’d points,
and of the manner of their appearance.’ (HUME) Discuss.
10. Was Hume a ‘careless sceptic’?
11. Compare the views of two philosophers set for this paper on the nature
and importance of mathematical knowledge.
12. Compare the views of two philosophers set for this paper on the nature
of cause and effect.