We will discuss throughout the semester key questions that you will try to develop answers: 1. Metaphysics- Reality
a. How do you view skepticism?
b. What are your axioms to help escape skepticism?
2. Epistemology
a. How do we acquire knowledge?
b. In what ways does acquiring knowledge help get out of skepticism?
3. Mind
a. Are we a body with a mind or a mind with a body?
b. Are you a functionalist or a behaviorist? Why?
4. Self
a. What are choices and how can we distinguish them?
b. How are choice and freedom connected in the philosophy of existentialism?
c. What makes you who you are, your choices or your abilities?
d. Have the ideas and concepts in this unit had an effect on your view or your own self?
5. Truth
What is the nature of Truth?
b. What are the differences between empirical, necessary, and subjective truth?
c. Why be rational?
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