Answer the following questions. Address each subquestion separately. It will pro

Answer the following questions. Address each subquestion separately. It will probably take you a paragraph or two per subquestion.
Topic 1 Locke Essay:
Explain why Qualitative Identity differs from Numerical identity. Explain how numerical identity works for rocks and plants.
How do we remain the same person over time? Give Locke’s answer. Use examples.
How does this answer apply to the case of Night Socrates and Day Socrates?
Do you think Locke was right about personal identity? Are there problems with his account (remember the Br Problems)? Can you think of another option? Explain.
Topic 3 Kant Essay:
Kant says that Hume awakened his “dogmatic slumber”. What did he mean by this? What implications did he draw from Hume’s radical empiricism?
According to Kant, what is a synthetic apriori? Hint: distinguish synthetic from analytic and aprior from aposteriori kinds of knowledge.
According to Kant, what are we really investigating when we think philosophically about the nature of reality? Why has this been described as a “Copernican revolution” in philosophy?
Do you agree with Kant? Is it true that we can only know the world as it appears to us? Explain.
Topic 2: Hume
What is inductive knowledge? How is it different than deductive?
Why does Hume think there is no rational justification for inductive knowledge?
If there is no rational justification for inductive knowledge, why should we keep using it?
What can Hume’s skepticism teach us about our present search for knowledge?
Extra Credit 1
Briefly explain Hobbes’ theory presented in the Leviathan. What is the Leviathan? Why it is necessary? Do we have something equivalent to a “Leviathan” in our own political system?
Extra Credit 2
In Being John Malkovich, an older person can live longer if they inhabit another (younger) person’s body. Would you allow someone else to inhabit your body with you (two consciousnesses sharing one body) so they could live longer?