1. In what senses, if any, can there be peaceful co-existence between
quantum theory and special relativity?
2. ‘The description of measurement given by the projection postulate is
mathematically natural and experimentally confirmed.’ Discuss.
3. What do Newton’s thought experiments about the rotating bucket and the
rotating globes show?
4. Is there a matter of fact about the one-way speed of light?
5. Is mental illness socially constructed?
6. What role should folk psychology play in the scientific study of the mind?
7. What, if anything, justifies the central role of rational choice modelling in
economics?
8. What is the best argument for the distinctiveness of social sciences in
relation to natural sciences? Does it succeed?
9. Do natural kinds have essences?
10. What is it for an institution or group to believe, intend, and do things?
11. How, if at all, can stating the function of a feature of an organism explain
that feature?
12. Does the contingency of biological generalisations mean that they cannot
be laws of nature?