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PAPER TITLE: EXPLORING PHILOSOPHY

DATE: Wednesday, 4 June 2014

PART 1

QUESTION ONE

Is the self just a bundle of perceptions?

According to Hume’s Bundle Theory of the Self, there is no idea without a corresponding sense of impression. Hence, we cannot have a concept of something we have not experienced before. For example, we cannot have an idea or concept of an apple without having perceived an apply many times before. 

Hume claims that no impression is constant and invariable, whether pain or pleasure, grief or joy, passion, sensations, that none of them exist at the same time. Therefore, it cannot be from any of these impressions or any other that the idea of self is derived. It can then be concluded that there is no such idea. It was from this Hume expressed the popular notion that...

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QUESTION TWO

Is there any science-fiction thought experiment that advances our understanding of personal identity?

PART 2

QUESTION THREE

‘Theists could solve the problem of evil by dropping the claim that God is omnipotent; but a non-omnipotent God is not a God at all.’ Discuss.

QUESTION FOUR

How convincing are Hume’s objections to the argument from design?

QUESTION FIVE

How convincing is Socrates’ response to Glaucon’s challenge in Plato’s Republic?

QUESTION SIX

‘A fetus is not a person, so abortion is morally permissible’. Discuss.

QUESTION SEVEN

Critically compare Descartes’s and Hume’s forms of scepticism.

QUESTION EIGHT

Did people living in the middle ages see the world differently from people in the 21st century? Discuss with reference to Kuhn.

QUESTION NINE

What are the main objections to the extended-mind hypothesis? Can they be overcome?

QUESTION TEN

How serious is the qualia problem for functionalists?

QUESTION ELEVEN

Is any analogy between parent-child and state-citizen relations close enough to justify political obligation?

QUESTION TWELVE

What is Nozick’s public-address system example meant to show? Does it?

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