Questions (350words per question minimum):
1. What is necessity in the philosophical sense and why is it important to our understanding of concepts like knowledge, truth, morality, and so on? How is necessity related to the method of conceptual analysis?
2. What is underdetermination and how does Descartes use this in his argument against nave empiricism? What implications does this have for our being certain that we are not dreaming? Finally, apply this idea of underdetermination to one other method we use as a basis for knowledge. (Memory, intuition, etc.)
3. What is the idea of necessary causation? Explain Humes argument against it. What implications does this have for our understanding of science and, in particular, the laws of physics?
