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Instructions to candidates:
1. Answer TWO questions. Each question carries equal marks.
2. You may take no more than 200 words of notes into the examination, which must be handed in with the script at the end.
Date: Tueday 20th May 2008
Time: 9.20-11.30 am
Place: Brook Building - Rooms 9/12/14
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1. "Science is to me not a mass of disconnected information, but the certainty that there is no change in the universe, no motion of an atom, and no sensation of a consciousness which does not come and go absolutely in accordance with natural laws; the certainty that nothing can exist outside the gigantic mechanism of causes and effects...." - Munsterberg.
In this sense are you a scientist?
2. Is the past determined?
3. What would it take to persuade you that the computer running WebCT was now capable of thought?
4. Evaluate the idea that the course of history is in principle predictable.
5."All that is certain about the matter is: (1) that, if we have Free Will, it must be true, in some sense, that we sometimes could have done what we did not do; and (2) that, if everything is caused, it must be true, in some sense, that we never could have done, what we did not do. What is very uncertain, and what certainly needs to be investigated, is whether these two meanings of the word 'could' are the same." - G.E.Moore.
Are they the same? What is the significance of your answer?
6. Could events fall into patterns without anything bringing the patterning about?
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Prepared by VP Created 28:04:08 A module of the BA Philosophy programme Center for Professional Ethics | University of Central Lancashire | e-mail hgmoran@uclan.ac.uk |
