3rd year

• What is the theory of secularisation?
• Does 'intelligent design theory' present a rival scientific theory to the theory of evolution?
• To what extent, if at all, can empirical results in psychology and/or neuroscience resolve the paradox of fiction?
• Explain and assess Plantinga’s evolutionary argument against naturalism.
• Nietzsche: the critique of religion must begin with a critique of morality, i.e. critique of values. According to Nietzsche, can religion survive this critique?
• Is Psychoanalysis Scientific?
• What is the problem of suggestion in psychoanalysis? Can it be solved?
• What can psychoanalysis contribute to our understanding of art?
• (Dissertation) Parapsychology and Afterlife Belief: discuss the nature and best explanation of near-death experience and evaluate the role such phenomena might play in arguments about the possibility of life after death

2nd year

• Summary of Aristotle's Metaphysics XII, 6
• Are emotional responses to fiction irrational?
• Describe and assess Collingwood's distinction between art and craft
• Is Anselm's ontological proof a meaningful and coherent statement of God's being?
• God is incomprehensible, yet humans think and talk about God. Discuss both the religious and philosophical solutions to this paradox
• Critically assess the problem of evil with respects to the divine predicates, goodness and power
• How free are we? (metaphysics)
• Are there universals as well as particular things?
• Should Locke be interpreted as claiming that personal identity turns on what a person can remember?
• Does Hume think there is nothing more to causation than regularity?
• Moral development after Kohlberg

1st year