PHIL 3990 B (CRN: 15756)

Philosophy: Adv. Sp. Tops Metaphysics (B)

3 credit hours

About PHIL 3990 B

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Notes

Prerequisite: one 2000-level course in PHIL PACE students with permission and override Special Topics courses cannot carry CC designations

Section Description

The course focuses on various metaphysical issues relating to time.

1. What is the nature of time? Is the present an objectively special time?
2. Is time travel possible?
3. What does it take for an everyday object to persist through time? Can two objects occupy the same space at the same time?
4. What does it take for a person to persist through time? If doctors switched your brain and mine, which resulting person would be me? Is it possible for a person to undergo fission so that one person becomes two?

Evaluation

Final Exam
Term paper
Three substantial homework assignments
Various small surprise quizzes and 'mini-assignments'

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