1. Is Berkeley’s master argument philosophically defensible?
2. EITHER (a) Is Berkeley’s idealism consistent with common sense?
OR (b) ‘That the things I see with mine eyes and touch with mine
hands do exist, I make not the least question. The only thing whose
existence we deny is that which philosophers call matter or corporeal
substance’ (BERKELEY). Discuss.
3. Evaluate Locke’s arguments for the claim that shape is a primary
quality whereas colour is a secondary quality.
4. Does Locke only succeed in refuting the least sophisticated version of
innatism?
5. What reasons, if any, do we have for thinking that Leibnizian monads
exist?
6. EITHER (a) Discuss Leibniz’s account of necessity. What is the most
serious problem with it?
OR (b) Does Leibniz offer a satisfactory account of the mind-body
interaction?
7. EITHER (a) ‘’Tis merely the force and liveliness of the perception,
which constitutes the first act of judgment, and lays the foundation of
that reasoning, which we build upon it, when we trace the relation of
cause and effect’ (HUME). Discuss.
OR (b) In what sense is Hume a sceptic with regard to demonstrative
knowledge?
8. ‘All our perceptions are different from each other, and from everything
else in the universe […] they are also distinct and separable […] and
may exist separately. They are, therefore, substances’ (HUME). What
is the significance of this view, and what are its consequences for
Hume’s account of personal identity?
9. Compare the use of ‘idea’ in the texts of two or more of the
philosophers set for this paper.
10.Compare the treatment of general terms in the texts of two or more of
the philosophers set for this paper.
11.Compare the treatment of knowledge of external objects in the texts of
two or more of the philosophers set for this paper.
12.Evaluate the role of God in the texts of two or more of the philosophers
set for this paper.
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