1 Does the slingshot argument threaten an ontology of facts?
2 Are there any negative facts?
3 How, if at all, are properties related to particulars?
4 Either (a) Could time have a direction? If so, what would this involve,
and how could we ever know that it has a direction?
Or (b) What, if anything, does McTaggart’s argument for the
unreality of time succeed in showing?
5 Can causation be understood in terms of raising of probabilities?
6 ‘To causally explain an event is to give information about its causal
history.’ Discuss.
7 In what sense, if any, are persons animals?
8 ‘The very notion of a bare particular is incoherent.’ Discuss.
9 Is there a form of conceptual relativism that is both coherent and
interesting?
10 Might you be a brain in a vat?
*11 What does Wittgenstein in the Tractatus mean when he says that a
proposition is a logical picture? What can be said in favour of this idea?
*12 Explain and assess Wittgenstein’s reasons for rejecting the ‘subject that
thinks or entertains ideas’ in the Tractatus.