1. EITHER (a) ‘That dress looks blue to me but white to you.’ Discuss
this claim from the perspective of a dispositionalist about colours.
OR (b) Do primary qualities resemble our ideas of them in a way that
secondary qualities do not?
2. ‘Perceptual experience essentially involves a relationship to a mindindependent object.’ Discuss.
3. ‘Aristotle existed only in the actual world.’ Discuss.
4. Offer a general recipe for constructing a Gettier case, and evaluate the
epistemic principles appealed to in Gettier’s own constructions.
5. Present the strongest case you can for justification internalism, and
criticize this case.
6. EITHER (a) ‘The sceptical arguments show that the concept
“knowledge” is incoherent and should be abandoned or replaced.’
Discuss.
OR (b) Can we show that we know things about the external world
without begging the question against the sceptic? Is it a problem if we
can’t?
7. What is the epistemic significance of higher-order evidence?
8. EITHER (a) ‘The argument from illusion refutes common sense
realism about perception.’ Discuss.
OR (b) If perceptual error is possible, how can perception be an
openness to and awareness of the world?
9. How is a priori knowledge possible?
10. Contrast the Humean and Reidian views of knowledge from testimony.