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PHL314: Advance Metaphysics
What Will You Learn?
The overall aim of PHI 314: Advance Metaphysics is to introduce and deepen students’ appreciation of what the focus and interest of metaphysics is all about as an important branch of philosophy. It also discusses the various branches and their subject matter in ways that show the fundamental connection there is between metaphysics and other aspects of philosophy. It hopes to stimulate metaphysical reflection and thinking among students by ensuring there is a profound appreciation of the various attempts to resolve some of the problems in metaphysics over the years as well as make the learning experience very exciting and interesting.
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Module 1 Metaphysics: Nature, Branches and Other Disciplines
- Unit 1: Meaning, Conceptual and theoretical definition, branches and nature
- Unit 2: General Issues and Problems in Metaphysics
- Unit 3: The Futility of Eliminating Metaphysics
- Unit 4: The Relevance of Metaphysics
Module 2: Systems of Metaphysics
- Unit 1: Realism
- Unit 2: Idealism
- Unit 3: Nominalism
- Unit 4: The Problem of Universals
- Unit 5: The Concepts of Nature, Reality and Thought
Module 3: Problems of Being
- Unit 1: Historical Exploration of the Question of Being
- Unit 2: The God Question in Metaphysics
- Unit 3: A Short Discourse on Human Nature
- Unit 4: The Mind-Body Problem (Some Theories/Debates)
- Unit 5: Notion of Substance (Monism vs Pluralism)
Module 4: Free Will and Determinism
- Unit 1: What is Freewill?
- Unit 2, The Nature of Determinism
- Unit 3: Determinism in African Metaphysics
Module 5: Further Reflections on Some Other Problems of Metaphysics
- Unit 1: Participation
- Unit 2: Essence and Existence
- Unit 3: Chance/Indeterminacy and Causality
- Unit 4: Theories of Time and Space
- Unit 5: The Concept of Authenticity
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