Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Hurrah! for Here's the Half Term Homework Come at last!


It's been a long weekend. And time is subject to perceptual variation. So bang on time is the promised homework. 



The following four questions / tasks (the bullet pointed bits) MUST be done (even if you're called Jake) by Monday 22nd February.

Seeing as you're getting so good, have a go at these. They will require some thought, I had to think about them, but that means little as I have fewer brain cells than you.

  • What does a comparison of idealism and direct realism tell us about the difference between epistemology and ontology?
  • Why does solipsism threaten both idealism and representative realism? What philosopher(s) might we turn to for an escape from solipsism and how might he help us?  
These are from the text book, p. 60, but are rather good: (I've got a bit of a hunch about Locke and primary / secondary qualities being in the exam - It is only a hunch and not inside information - unfortunately). 

  • Say whether the following are examples of primary qualities, secondary qualities, both, or neither. Explain your thinking.






Heat
Velocity
Pleasure
Pain
Circularity
Colour
Existence
Mass
Atoms
  • Describe and illustrate one epistemological distinction between primary and secondary qualities and one ontological one.

5 comments:

souper jake said...

how about if your name's souper jake? do you still have to do the homework then??? (i think you should let me not do it just to spite joe :P ) much love bye bi xx

mrbrodie said...

You are allowed to ignore the homework if you meet the following requirements:
1. You are known as Jake Nisbet
2. You will never wear stripes in a public place between now and July 2010

Sam Weston said...

i'm stuck,, does this mean i can be known as jake nisbet and not do the homework??? cos i never wear stripes either, ;)

souper jake said...

i'm afraid i can adhere to the first requirement :P

mrbrodie said...

You have to adhere to both requirements!