(1) Impart to students familiarity with, and knowledge of, the main issues addressed and approaches taken by philosophers, specifically in the area of metaphysics.
(2) Impart to students critical skills to deal with these issues and employ these approaches in their assessment of their own culture and societal life, and in thinking about their own personal lives.
(3) Develop high level written and oral skills in analyzing and presenting philosophical issues.
(4) Develop a capacity to appreciate the philosophical positions involved in how people approach ways of living and in their stance to the world around them.

The course covers topics including Realism, the existence of material objects, causation, philosophical problems of space and time, problems of the self, other minds and the nature and existence of moral properties.

PHIL3710 METAPHYSICS, EPISTEMOLOGY, RATIONALITY I

Students who have gained credit for PHIL3710 will be unable to gain credit for this course.

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10 units of PHIL courses at 1000 level, or 40 units of any courses at any level.

Internal Mode

Lecture

Lecture: for 3 hour(s) per Week for Full Term