Metaphysics

(1-4 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Metaphysics studies the most general aspects of reality. It concerns categories such as objects, properties, events, etc. It also investigates the nature of space, time, possibility, causation, free will, persistence, etc. This class will be a survey of such a small but representative sample of topics in metaphysics. We will also touch on the relation between metaphysics and natural science. SY - Sydney, Australia This is a unit in metaphysics: the discipline that tells us about the nature of the world. The unit carries on from the Reality component of first year. We engage with questions like: What is time? What is space? What makes something a person? How much change can I undergo and still be me? Are objects four-dimensional space-time worms? Do the past or future exist, and could we travel to them? Are there numbers?