Conducted as an advanced seminar, the course addresses topics from metaphysics and epistemology, understood to include the philosophy of mind. Each student writes and presents a substantial seminar paper related to the course. Representative course topics include human freedom and the causal order, conceivability and possibility, number and other abstractions, the infinite, a priori knowledge, relativism and truth, knowledge of the self, intentionality, mental causation, and the nature of consciousness.

Prerequisites
Two courses from PHIL 230, 240, 330, 331, 332, 333, 336, and 340.
Course UID
004561.1
Course Subject
Catalog Number
430
Long title
Topics in Knowledge and Reality
Topic
Metaphysics and Epistemology
Other Minds
Philosophical Methodology
Social Epistemology