PHIL 230.001 – Experience and Reality

Instructor: Carla Merino-Rajme. This course meets TR 2:00 – 3:15 p.m. in NE 102.

This course covers several topics in metaphysics. These include: Can we be certain that there is an external world? How is your conscious mind related to your brain? Can we change the past? What is the nature of time? Can we travel in time? What is a person? How do persons persist? Could you be teletransported? Do people have free will? In this course, students will be introduced to the methods of contemporary philosophy.