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Course description

The questions of what philosophy is and what philosophers do are approached through a discussion of the work of philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, Hume, Sartre, Fanon, Beauvoir, and Merleau-Ponty. The first section of the course is devoted to questions of what there is (metaphysics) and what it is to know (epistemology), and topics covered include scepticism, the relationship between mind and body, and the problem of personal identity. The second section responds to earlier work on Descartes by providing an introduction to philosophy from the existential and phenomenological perspectives of embodiment, eroticism, inter-subjectivity, and love. It explores ideas of intentionality and the lived body, the ontological significance of the gaze, relations between the self and the other, and the relevance of these for a philosophical understanding of our everyday lives. Note: This course is available online, as well as face-to-face in Semester 1.

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