1. What is scientific realism? What is scientific instrumentalism? What arguments can be used to support each view? Which view seems better to you, and why?
2. What are the four main metaphysical theories of time? After laying them out, pick one and consider its strengths and weaknesses.
3. What is the knowledge argument? What metaphysical theory of the mind does it support? What reasons are there to question the knowledge argument?
For problem 4, pick either 4a or 4b:
4a. What is comic moralism? What is comic immoralism? What are Smuts’s objections to immoralism? Do his criticisms succeed? Which view seems right to you and why?
4b. In class, we have considered three dispositional theories: of value, color, and funniness. What is the basic structure of a dispositional theory? Are dispositional theories reductionist? Why or why not? Pick one of these theories and describe its strengths and weaknesses.
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