1. Assess the main arguments against innate ideas in the first book of
Locke’s Essay and Leibniz’s response in the New Essays.
2. EITHER (a) Critically discuss Locke’s distinction between primary and
secondary qualities.
OR (b) Assess Locke’s claim that we can never know the ‘real essence’
of gold.
3. What is Berkeley’s best argument against the existence of matter? Does
it work?
4. EITHER (a) Does Berkeley succeed in proving the existence of God?
OR (b) Is Berkeley entitled to believe in the existence of other minds?
5. ‘Monads are the true atoms of nature, and, in fact, the elements of
things.’ Discuss.
6. Does Leibniz account for the difference between necessary and
contingent truths?
7. EITHER (a) Did Hume think that ideas are caused by impressions?
OR (b) Did Hume argue that causation is entirely in the mind?
8. Why did Hume suggest that, for all we know, each perception is an
individual substance? Discuss the implications of this for the existence of
the external world or for personal identity.
9. What roles does Hume attribute to strength and liveliness in
distinguishing between impressions and ideas and/or in defining belief?
10. Compare Locke’s and Hume’s views on ‘ideas’.
11. What is a mind? Compare the answers given by two of the philosophers
set in this paper.
12. What is space? Compare the answers given by two of the philosophers
set in this paper.