PHIL233

Epistemology and Metaphysics

15 points

Occurrences

Description

This course is an introduction to selected topics in the theory of knowledge and of reality. For example: What is a physical object? Are you the same physical object now that you were 10 years ago? What is the difference between reality and dreaming? Is cause-and-effect real, or just a way of looking at things? What is science? What makes the black squiggles you're now reading mean something? Are meanings ideas? Do deep metaphysical statements, such as ‘I am the only conscious being in the universe’ or 'Everything is fated', really say anything? We also investigate philosophy itself: is there a specific philosophical personality and does philosophy have a diversity problem?

Prerequisites

Any 15 points at 100 level in PHIL, or
any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA or the BSc.