1 Should we be conceptual relativists?
2 Is there an acceptable form of idealism?
*3 Does the Tractatus give me any good reason to think that my world is
atomistic?
*4 ‘There is no such thing as the thinking representing subject.’
(Tractatus 5.631) Discuss.
5 Either (a) What is Bradley’s regress? Can the regress be avoided by
conceiving of universals as essentially incomplete?
Or (b) Is there a particular-universal distinction?
6 What, if anything, makes negative existential statements true?
7 In what sense, if any, are facts ‘composed’ from their constitutents?
8 Either (a) In what sense, if any, do the singular causal facts depend
on the existence of laws?
Or (b) Must a cause necessitate its effects?
9 How is the past different from the future?
10 Explain and assess the hypothesis that time differs from space in that time
has a ‘direction’ and space does not.
11 Should the identity of persons over time matter to us?
12 ‘We cannot prove that external bodies exist, but we must assume it in all
our reasoning.’ Discuss.