Essay 1: Philosophy of the Sciences (with revised due date)

Revised Due date: 5pm Monday 24 October

Length: 1500 words (within 10%)

This essay will constitute 30% of your final mark. You must hand in both a hard copy version of their paper to the philosophy office and email an electronic version of their essay to PHIL2130@y7mail.com.

Late essays will lose 2% of marks per day late.

Essay Questions

1. Evaluate Hume’s argument for inductive scepticism

2. Evaluate one or more attempted solutions to the ravens paradox

3. Evaluate one or more account of what it is for one proposition to confirm, or be evidence for, another proposition