UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN TRINITY COLLEGE XPH001 FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND HUMAN SCIENCES SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY Junior Freshman Exa ‘Trinity Term 2008 (Gingle and Joint Honors) Monday 26% May 2008 14.00 -17.00 Sports Hall Central Problems in Philosophy (JF1) Dr. McGlynn, Dr. Neufeld, Dr. Alweiss, Dr. Connolly, Dr. Hudry Answer FOUR questions, no more than ONE question ‘in each ofthe FIVE sections (CANDIDATES ARE REQUESTED TO ANSWER EACIT QUESTION ON. SEPARATE ANSWER BOO Page lof 3XPrLOOLL SECTION A ‘What constitutes the religious outlook, and what philosophical questions does such an outlook raise? In discussing the existence of God what value should we place on reports ‘of miraculous events? Discuss what you consider to be the most salient points put forward by the critics of religion that you have studied. SECTION B ‘What is the appropriate relationship between property and justice? What is Rawls's criticism of utilitarianism? Do you find it convincing? Why or why not? What are Nozick's two criticisms of principles of distributive justice? Do you find them convineing? Why or why not? SECTION C How does Diderot try to make sense of existence without appealing to a primal mover? Do you see any problems with his postion? Rousseau admits that he has no way of knowing the original nature of ‘man, Why does he nonetheless write about it? Discuss. Page2 of 310. u. 2 13, 14 15, Xpri0011 ‘Compare and contrast Rousseau and Voltaire’s take on the socalled problem of evi SECTION D If your body is destroyed but a clone is created with your memories, beliefs, ambitions andl character traits is that clone you? Could there be non-human persons? And could there be humans who aren't persons? Is freedom ofthe will an illusion? Or “Freedom is just being able to act as one wants; and as such is compatible ‘with causal determinism’ Discuss. SECTION E Why does Cartesian dualism lead to the mind-body problem? ‘What does it mean to say that mental states are functional states of a system? Why does intentionality contradict physicalism? © UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN Page 3 0f3