1 ‘Realism is indefensible, but it is the only game in town.’ Discuss.
2 Does belief in the perspectival nature of knowledge commit one either to
relativism or to scepticism?
3 Either (a) Why should people be suspicious of the category of facts?
Or (b) Do sentences typically represent facts?
4 Are there abstract objects?
5 ‘Causal mechanisms are one thing, causal explanations something else.’ Discuss.
6 Can tenseless theories of time explain why tensed beliefs are useful?
7 What is the best defence of the view that one is not a brain in a vat?
8 Either (a) Are there necessary and sufficient conditions for being a person?
Or (b) ‘Some persons are not human and some humans are not persons.’
Discuss.
†9 Either (a) How does one know what one thinks and feels?
Or (b) Is there anything distinctive about self-knowledge?
†10 Can I perceive another’s thoughts and feelings?
*11 How do Tractarian objects differ from Russellian sense data?
*12 ‘The World is my World.’ Discuss.