The Self and the World

4 credits · Undergraduate

What sort of thing am I? And what is my relation to others, and to the world in general? We will consider versions of these questions, as they are asked and answered in a variety of classical and contemporary philosophical texts: what can we know about the world? Is the skeptic right to answer: nothing? What is it in the nature of minds (and bodies) which makes knowledge seem so problematic? How are minds and bodies related to those things which have them: persons? And how does this bear on the question of the meaning of life?