Final Exam, Phil. 181 Spring 2004, Prof. Dowden   1. Discuss Aristotle's concept of infinity and compare it with Thomas Aquinas's concept in the 13th century and Cantor's in the 19th century. 2. What makes you be you? That is, what unites all your experiences? Is it that they all have the irreducible and unanalyzable monadic property of "you-ness"? What views on personal identity do you reject? Why? 3. What are properties? In answering the above question, work in answers to the following questions.  Don't a red sunset and red rose have in common the property of being red? Do you agree with Quine's 1948 position on properties in "On What There Is?" Are properties best understood as being tropes of things? Is Leibniz's Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles a correct principle about properties? What do your opponents say about all this? 4. Heraclitus raised a problem about stepping into the same river twice. Compare and contrast some different ways this problem been solved. For example, what would a mereological essentialist say? PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT COLLEGE OF ARTS AND LETTERS Updated: May 24, 2004