Past admissions interview questions for Philosophy
Is the chair really there? (molivam42's weblog)
If you were to form a government of philosophers what selection process would you use? (Oxbridge Applications)
Is it moral to hook up a psychopath (whose only pleasure is killing) to a reality-simulating machine so that he can believe he is in the real world and kill as much as he likes? (Oxbridge Applications)
if I could pass any piece of legislation through parliament, what would it be? - philosophy, (Cambridge, Oxbridge Applications)
what about fatalism? (Cambridge, Oxbridge Applications)
how do we know if 1 + 1 = 2 if the concept of numbers was in fact 'invented' by humans? (Oxford, Oxbridge Applications)
why do you think grandparents feel the need to academically surpass their children and grandchildren? (Oxford, Oxbridge Applications)
Plato argues that objects in our world, such as chairs, come from an ideal form of a chair that transcends our world. Do you find this convincing? (life more extraordinary)
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