Varities of Metaphysics in the 20th Century

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Metaphysics has often been declared dead but in fact has been very productive in the 20th century, even if with different contents and different methodologies. We will read five main works of the discipline from very different philosophical traditions and from four countries: Husserl's lectures on First Philosophy, Sartre's Being and Nothingness, which further develops Husserl's phenomenological method, Whitehead's Process and Reality, Peter Frederick Strawson's essay on descriptive metaphysics Individuals, and David Lewis's On the Plurality of Worlds. The contact hours are 36; and undergraduate students will gain credits by writing two papers of ten pages each (the first due July 20th, the second July 30th).