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BSc/BA EXAMINATION
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KNOWLEDGE, OBJECTIVITY AND RELATIVISM
EXAMINATION PERIOD 2 (SUMMER 2014)
TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS
Answer THREE questions.
Avoid overlap in your answers.
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Answer THREE questions.
1. Could this all be a dream?
2. How, if at all, are primary and secondary qualities to be
distinguished? In what sense, if any, are moral properties akin to
secondary qualities?
3. Suppose your belief that P has been produced by a psychological
process that almost always produces true beliefs. Does it follow
that your belief that P is justified?
4. Explain what it means to say that something exists necessarily.
Does anything exist necessarily?
5. What does it mean to say that some proposition is known a
priori? Is anything known a priori? Justify your answer.
6. What does it mean to say that some knowledge is innate? Is any
factual knowledge innate?
7. Does acceptance of the claim that morality is relative have any
implications for one’s own moral commitments?
8. Expound and assess Mackie’s argument from queerness.
9. ‘Suppose we accept the Humean model of a motivating state.
Then we can be moral realists, or internalists about motivation:
but we cannot be both.’ Discuss.
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10. How, and how well, does Harman defend moral relativism?
11. Is there a genuine problem of the freedom of the will? If not,
why does there seem to be? If so, how (if at all) can it be solved?
12. What, if anything, makes it true (when it is true) that S at time t1
is the same person as S at some later (or earlier) time t2.
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