Knowledge and Reality: Introduction to Philosophy - ARTS1361


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: School of History and Philosophy
	Course Outline: School of History and Philosophy
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
	Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Excluded: PHIL1007
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable
	Available for General Education: Yes (more info)

Description

Subject Area: Philosophy
This course can also be studied in the following specialisation: History & Philosophy of Science

An introduction to some classical and contemporary philosophical questions, puzzles, and ideas about knowledge and reality. This is a course in two central areas of philosophy - epistemology and metaphysics. Philosophers could include Plato, Descartes, Berkeley, and Hume, along with many contemporary philosophers.

Topics may include:
(1) Metaphysics: personal identity, free will, good and evil, universals, essences, meaning of life, death;
(2) Epistemology: fallibility, truth, evidence, knowledge, empiricism, causation, rationalism, knowledge of other minds, knowledge of the external world, idealism, moral knowledge.