Seminar in Metaphysics and Epistemology I

Three credits · Undergraduate

A seminar course that focuses on issues in classical and contemporary epistemology and metaphysics. Topics to be considered may include: an investigation of the ultimate structure of reality as a whole: the nature of material things; the existence of the immaterial; the meaning of being; what can and cannot be known of reality; whether there is a First Cause. Credit will be granted for only one of PHIL 461 or PHIL 391 (2017-2018). Prerequisite: junior standing in any program or permission of the instructor. Three credits. Not offered 2026-2027.