Beihang University Abstract Objects and Contemporary Platonism Paper

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It should be between 1000-1500 words. Please select one question from the list below, and make sure to clearly state the question you are answering at the start of your essay.

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(1) What is the ‘Mary’ problem against physicalism, and how effective is it?

(2) What are philosophical zombies, and what problem are they meant to pose for physicalism? How plausible is the zombie argument?

(3) What is the argument from illusion, and how is it used to motivate indirect realism over direct realism? Is it effective?

(4) What is the problem of fiction, and how do you think one should respond to it?

(5) Can the B-series capture everything there is about the nature of time? If not, what does it leave out?

(6) What are abstract objects? Are there any?

(7) What is the most persuasive mereological account of the relationship between parts and wholes? Defend your answer.

(8) What is an indispensability argument? What problems do such arguments face?

(9) How should we demarcate genuine science from pseudo-science?

(10) Critically evaluate the merits of scientific realism by focusing on what you take to be either the strongest argument in its defense or the strongest argument against it.

(11) Why is there something rather than nothing?

(12) What is the problem of evil, and how compelling is it as an argument for God’s non-existence?

(13) Is it ever rational to have faith in God?

(14) Does immortality have any essential role to play in an account of the meaning of life?

(15) Is death necessary for one’s life to be meaningful?

(16) If all that exists is the natural world, then can life ever be meaningful?

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Running head: ABSTRACT OBJECTS

Abstract objects
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ABSTRACT OBJECTS
What are abstract objects? Are there any?
Abstract objects include entities such as propositions, the numbers, and Universe, which
in most times is contrasted with objects that can be touched like tadpoles, the tables, seats.
Notably, as Mark, (2013) claims, the mathematical objects top the lists of abstract objects
followed by things such as games in general, music pieces. Looking at chess, we in most times
think of it as something existing by concrete virtue player for chess moving part of chess in line
with rules set for the game. To further explain whether there exist abstract objects, Platonism and
TTheism will dig more in-depth on the perspective. Platonism theory argues that there is a realm
of necessarily existing objects which comprises reality framework beyond the material world
(Mark, 2013). Notably, Platonism explainxplains that abstract objects do not come from creative
divine activities. On the contrary, traditional TTheism explains that God is the creator and that
God is the core source of existence. Additionally, Theism contends that included in the realities
beyond God, is the realm of abstract objects.
Platonism claims that abstract objects do not exist in time or space, and it is entirely nonmental and also not physical (Craig, 2017). The contemporary Platonism which derives from
teachings by Plato has no direct reflections of his teachings. The teachings say that abstract
materials are not composed of elements; the earthly ...


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