These thought questions are designed to help you to think about the material.  If you don't know the answer to some of them, talk to other students or come and see me.

1)What is a valid argument? A sound argument? Give  examples of valid but unsound  arguments, valid arguments with false conclusion, invalid arguments with true conclusions. What is the structure of an indirect argument (a reductio)?
2)What is determinism?  What is compatibilism? What's incompatibilism? Are hard determinist incompatibilists? What's the difference between simple indeterminism and agent causation? How do compatibilists interpret “I could have done otherwise”?  Are they right? What are the main arguments for libertarianism? How do compatibilists and incompatibilists differ in their views of deliberation?  What's the relation between free will and moral responsibility? Is the notion of flexibility relevant to that of free will?
3) What's strong AI? What is Searle's view on strong AI?  What's the Chinese Room? How does Searle reply to his critics?  Are you convinced by his arguments?  If not, why not?
4)  How can we think of identity with respect to time? What is Millewr's view of personal identity?  Are Weirob's objections to it successful? Does Cohen's intervention manage to rescue Miller's position?  What is the memory view of personal identity?  What's Reid's famous objection to Locke's theory?
5) What is the difference between the A series and the B series?  Why does McTaggart believe that the B series presupposes the A series? What are McTaggart’s arguments for the claim that time doesn't exist?  How does he reject Russell's claim that the tenseless view of time is correct?  Is McTaggart right? Is it reasonable to hold that time flies?  If not, what is time?
6)What's the difference between natural and revealed religion?  How does the Cosmological Argument go, precisely? What are Hume’s criticisms of it?  Is Hume right? What sort of argument is the Argument from Design?  Is it an a priori argument?  Is it an indirect argument? Is it a deductive argument?  Is it a satisfactory argument? Why do some philosophers think that even if the Argument from Design strongly supported its conclusion it would still be unable to play the role its proponents have in mind? Does Pascal's wager convince you? Explain.
What's the problem of evil?  Is the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent God incompatible with our experience of the world?  If so, why? If not, why not? Does the existence of evil make it unlikely that an omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent God exists? What's your view of the matter?
7) What is UP?  Can it provide the foundation of morality?  If not, why?  What is GR?  Can it constitute the foundation of morality?  Explain.
8) What's Mill's greatest happiness principle? What's the difference between his views on pleasure and Bentham’s? What's happiness for him? How does he answer the objection that happiness is unattainable?  What's the hedonistic calculus? What are some of the problems facing any such calculus? How does Mill answer the objection that we cannot accurately measure the consequences of our actions? What's the difference between Act and Rule Utilitarianism? Can you give an example which illustrates the difference? How can Utilitarianism deal with the charge that it disregards fair distribution of goods? How can it deal with the charge that it disregards human rights?  What's the supererogation problem? What's the replaceability problem?  What's consequentialism? What are the three main versions of it?
9)For Kant, what's the only thing good without qualification?  When is a decision morally good? Can I perform my duty towards you while hating you? For Kant, when is an action morally right? What's the difference between hypothetical and categorical imperative?  What's the “universal law” formulation of the categorical imperative? What's the "end in itself" formulation?  What's the rationale behind it? For Kant, why should a rational being be moral? Why am I autonomous when I obey the moral law? Why does autonomy entail the rejection of external authority in moral issues? How can Kant show that lying is immoral? Would lying always be immoral for a Utilitarian? Why does the exceptionless character of the categorical imperative present a problem for Kant? Can the problem be fixed? How?
10) What counts as suicide?  Is suicide always immoral?  If so, why?  If not, is it never immoral?  explain.  What are Hume's arguments on suicide?  Do you agree with them?  Should Kant condemn suicide as he does?  What your view of the matter?
11) What is an animal according to the Animal Welfare Act?  Are some non human animals persons?  If so, why? If not, why not?  Are you a radical speciesist?  If so, why? If not, why not?  What do you think of moral vegetarianism? Must anumals have rights in order to be within the realm of morality?
12) What's the main thesis of Mill’s “On Liberty”?  Why does he believe that freedom of thought and discussion must be protected? How is freedom of action related to individuality?  Why should it be protected? Within which limits should freedom of speech be protected?  Freedom of action? What's the distinction between self regarding and other regarding action? Is this distinction tenable? Why is paternalism wrong for Mill?  Should morality be enforced?  Why does Lord Devlin deny that, strictly speaking, there is such a thing as private morality?  What are the theoretical limits to society's right to legislate morality? Why is Mill in favor of decentralization of power? Should drugs be legal for Mill? Is having as many children as one wants a right for Mill? What's his view about home schooling?  Why does he think that in general state interference is bad?
13) What are the different types of autonomy? Why is non perfectionist autonomy important? Is paternalism ever justified? If so, when?  What's autonomy as a form of freedom? What's false consciousness?  Does it ever exist? If so, do we in liberal democracies suffer from it?