1. ‘The good cannot consist in virtue because we need to explain virtue in
terms of bringing about the good.’ Discuss.
2. ‘The rules of common-sense morality are unacceptably imprecise,
while utilitarianism offers precision. Therefore, considerations of
precision are powerful reasons to accept utilitarianism.’ Discuss.
3. EITHER (a) Should you plug into the Experience Machine?
OR (b) Is the money-pump objection to incomparability decisive?
4. ‘Torturing the innocent for fun is wrong. So the moral error theory is
false.’ Discuss.
5. How important are capabilities for assessing well-being?
6. How, if at all, can our moral obligations be explained by our desires?
7. ‘So act that you use humanity, whether in your own person or in the
person of any other, always at the same time as an end, never merely
as a means’ (KANT). Discuss.
8. Kant claims that a free will and a will under moral laws are ‘one and the
same’. Is he right?
9. EITHER (a) What is the difference between trust and reliance?
OR (b) What is the correct account of trust?
10.‘Implicit biases concerning the testimony of others are sometimes
epistemically blameworthy, but never morally blameworthy.’ Discuss.