1. Why does David Hume think that there is really no such thing as a self, and that all there is is a series of bundles of perception? Why does Immanuel Kant think that Hume is looking in the wrong place for the self? What does Kant think the self is?
2. What does Sartre mean when he says that existence precedes essence? How does this make human existence difference from the existence of inanimate objects like dry-erase markers? What is the place of nothingness in human existence? What is the relationship between nothingness and freedom?
3. Explain the dreaming argument and the evil demon argument in Descartess Meditations. What are each of these arguments supposed to show about the state of our knowledge? What is the one thing that remains certain even if both of these arguments are correct, according to Descartes?