Question 1: How does J. L. Mackie challenge the idea that belief in God is rational?
Question 2: In the Apology, Socrates claims that he knows nothing. In the Menu, Socrates claims that he knows that knowledge differs from true belief. How might one reconcile such knowledge with Socrates' claim not to be wise or knowledgeable?
Question 3: How does Nagel think that we can identify the subject of the misfortune of death, despite the fact that death is the permanent end of one's conscious existence?
Question 4: How does the example of believing 'Jones owns a Ford or Brown is in Barcelona' enable Gettier to conclude that justified true belief is not sufficient for knowledge?
Question 5: Descartes writes: ". . . this proposition: I am, I exist, is necessarily true each time that I pronounce it, or that I mentally conceive it" (p. 64). Explain how Descartes arrives at this conclusion.
Question 6: Explain (i) the two versions of Williams's "body switching" thought experiment, and (ii) how they are supposed to undermine the intuitive idea that a third-person perspective on personal identity would support a bodily criterion of personal identity while a ?rst-person perspective would support a psychological criterion
What has been your favourite reading from this course and why?