Some Suggested Paper topics (but you can also choose your own) Do not write more than 10 pages.

Say what Dennett’s Chase & Sanborn argument is and whether it works.

Is there a real difference between the Orwellian and Stalinesque pictures of the phi phenomenon?

State and evaluate O’Regan’s and Noë’s argument.

Is a functional criterion of similarity and identity compatible with a physicalist view of the specific nature of phenomenal experience?

Does the puzzle that Shoemaker raises for the inverted spectrum hypothesis show that the Frege-Schlick view is right?

Is memory crucial to the inverted spectrum? Assuming inverted spectra can exist at all, could there be an inverted spectrum in a creature that had no memory?

What is Lewis’ way of balancing functionalist and physicalist considerations and what is Shoemaker’s objection to it? Who is right?