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PHIL206 Metaphysics

10 cp
Prerequisites
1 Philosophy unit at introductory 100-level
Teaching Organisation Lectures, tutorials, seminars.

Metaphysics is concerned with the study of ultimate questions about the nature of the world and of human existence. In this unit, drawing on classical sources such as Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant and contemporary philosophers, metaphysical topics such as the following will be discussed: how are science and metaphysics related; the problem of universals; the nature of change, substance/ accident, and other ontologies; being and ontological categories; natural kinds; potentiality and act; essence and existence; causation and explanation; space and time; possibility and necessity; the concept of God as a necessary being; problems of realism and anti-realism.

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