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BSc/BA/BEng EXAMINATION
6AAN4043
KNOWLEDGE, OBJECTIVITY AND RELATIVISM
Summer 2013
TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS
ANSWER THREE QUESTIONS
Candidates should avoid overlap in their 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?
3. Is it possible to know that P without having a good reason for
believing that P?
4. What does it mean to say that some knowledge is innate? Is any
factual knowledge innate?
5. EITHER (a) Expound and assess the best argument you know for
moral relativism.
OR (b) Does acceptance of the claim that morality is relative
have any implications for one’s own moral commitments?
6. ‘There are no objective values.’ How, and how well, does
Mackie argue for this?
7. Does morality provide us with reasons for action?
8. 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?
9. 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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