1 How is it possible to make sense of the idea that something that is perceived can
also exist unperceived?
2 Are there any areas of discourse for which a coherence theory of truth is
satisfactory?
3 Is there any sense in which primary qualities are more objective than secondary
ones?
4 Either (a) Can the concept of knowledge be analysed into more basic
concepts?
Or (b) If one knows that p must there be a specific way in which one
knows that p? What light, if any, does the answer to this question
cast on what it is to know that p?
5 How, if at all, is a priori knowledge possible?
6 Explain the difference between deflationism and the correspondence theory of
truth. Is either acceptable?
7 Either (a) Can materialism admit that there could have been mental states
that were not physical states?
Or (b) Does the possibility of an intelligent Martian, with a physical
makeup different from our own, show that the mind is not
identical with the brain?
8 Can computers have representational states?
9 Either (a) Do all monisms have to be anomological?
Or (b) ‘Anomalous Monism has had its day; we need now either to
develop it or to drop it.’ Discuss.
10 Is intentionality the mark of the mental?