Pick one of the following to write about:
Is Ockham’s Razor a correct epistemological principle?
Is there any such thing as innate ideas or is our mind a tabula rasa when we are born?
Is Rene Descartes’ methodological doubt the correct way to obtain knowledge?
Is there any such thing as universals/Platonic Forms?
Are some beliefs more foundational than others, as a house is built upon a foundation, or is it more like a web, as Quine suggests, in which all beliefs are interconnected with each other?
What is consciousness? Are trees conscious? How about bacteria or viruses? What about rocks? What would make a rock different than a tree? How would one be able to determine whether something is conscious?
Will computers ever have consciousness? (Make sure to discuss the Turing Test, and account for John Searle’s Chinese room argument)
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