Essay Topics (70 points). 2000-3000 words (4-5 pages, double spaced). Essays do not require outside sources unless otherwise specified. Submit as one document via the turnitin link on iLearn. Focus on explaining, evaluating and creating arguments throughout.

1. How does the pragmatist theory of truth challenge one or more of the ‘truisms about truth’ Lynch defends in chapter 1? Which view do you support on the basis of the arguments, pragmatism or the truisms about truth that it challenges? Finish by explaining one overall conclusion about the nature of truth you believe on the basis of your analysis above.

2. Explain two or more of Lynch’s arguments against post-modern relativism, and the pluralist position he defends. Between these two positions, which do you find more convincing and why? Finish by explaining one overall conclusion about the nature of truth you believe on the basis of your analysis above.

3. Explain and critically engage with 3 or more points from Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Truth and Lie in an Extra-moral Sense”. Finish by explaining one overall conclusion about the nature of truth you believe on the basis of your analysis above.

4. Explain and critically engage with two or more of Lynch’s objections to reductive naturalism. Do you find his objections convincing and problematic for reductive naturalism? Finish by explaining one overall conclusion about the nature of truth you believe on the basis of your analysis above.

5. Explain and critically evaluate two of Jason Baehr’s appraisals of virtue epistemology (two of the four forms of VE he evaluates). Do you agree with Baehr’s arguments? What issues regarding the nature of intellectual virtue are up for grab in his arguments? Finish by explaining how you see the connection between truth and intellectual virtue.