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Reply Fri 25 Dec, 2009 03:00 pm
Winning a fellowship to All Souls college in Oxford is very prestigious. Here is the competitive examination (2006) for that fellowship. Do you find these questions interesting?

www.all-souls.ox.ac.uk/userfiles/file/FaE/PastPapers/PH2005-9.pdf
 
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Reply Fri 25 Dec, 2009 09:08 pm
@kennethamy,
1. Why is non-conscription acusitory?

2. What makes an arguement not simply beautiful but true?

3. Can we live for the other?

4. Is virtue intrinsic value?

5. Can our vision be dream and communicated as one entire?

6. Is knowledge something shown?

7. Do the senses create environment?

8. Are we judged by our capasity to know others as we would have be known ourselves?

9. Does the reality exist outside the virtuous meaning?

10. What is instinct?

11. Do we want/need to be unanswered?

12. Can we trust what has gone before? (esspecially that it is gone).

13. Can an entity or even identity be saved?

14. Is my expression of self which imprisons me?

15. Is it cheep to be poor?

16. How can something being still be an ideal/concept/idea?

17. Whos what is hearing/listening?

18. Is the truth of matter that which we take for granted, take without question what is given?

19. Do we challenge anyhtinig by saying I am born human?

20. What matters is not identifiable but possessed.

21. Anarchy in the U.K.

22. Can we show/see the rationality of the animal kingdom, can we rationalise an ape into Being?

23. Can you know the soul only by what the soul prefers?

24. Conjoined twins.

25. Do we know life by its example rather than experience?

26. Does should proove quantum mechanics?

Do I pass the written?Smile
 
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Reply Mon 8 Feb, 2010 01:43 pm
@kennethamy,
Mmmm ... tough one. I'm going to have to cheat.

PHILOSOPHY I (2005)

Quote:
Can the Ontological Argument be salvaged?
I AM THAT I AM.

PHILOSOPHY II (2005)

Quote:
Can a coincidence be explained?
It's funny you should ask me that ...

Quote:
Is there anything worse than cruelty?
This exam!

PHILOSOPHY I (2006)

Quote:
Are you identical with a human being?
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I might incriminate myself.

Quote:
Which philosopher has done most damage to philosophy, and in what ways?
Give me time.

PHILOSOPHY II (2006)

Quote:
Should one be held responsible for one's own character?
I modestly disclaim responsibility for my own.

PHILOSOPHY I (2007)

Quote:
Can you assert a proposition without being capable of understanding it?
YES!

PHILOSOPHY II (2007)

Quote:
Is induction justified?
Not yet.

Quote:
When a nearby car alarm goes off, do you hear the car, the alarm, or both?
I usually hear screaming in my head.

PHILOSOPHY I (2008)

Quote:
Could someone know nothing? If not, how close could they get?
Try me.

Quote:
'The Labour Party believes that we should join the Euro.' Is there any sense in which the Labour Party has beliefs?
You're kidding, right?

Quote:
Can you forgive someone who has done you no harm?
Those bastards are the worst!

PHILOSOPHY II (2008)

Quote:
What makes something a perversion?
Who have you been talking to?

Quote:
Which philosopher do you consider unjustifiably neglected and why?
Do you really have to ask me that?

PHILOSOPHY I (2009)

Quote:
What sort of true statements can be known a priori?
I know I've failed this exam.

PHILOSOPHY II (2009)

Quote:
Is the problem of evil insuperable?
Not if you've got nukes.
 
 

 
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