Knowledge and Reality: Introductory Topics (PHIL2000)
Information valid for Semester 1, 2025
Course level
Undergraduate
Faculty
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
School
Historical & Philosophical Inq
Units
2
Duration
One Semester
Attendance mode
In Person
Class hours
Lecture 2 Hours/ Week
Tutorial 1 Hour/ Week
Incompatible
PHIL7200
Assessment methods
Assignments, Examination, or some combination of both
Course enquiries
Associate Professor Joel Katzav (Semester 1, St Lucia, In person)
Study Abroad
This course is pre-approved for Study Abroad and Exchange students.
Current course offerings
| Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
| Semester 1, 2025 (24/02/2025 - 21/06/2025) | St Lucia | In Person | Course Profile |
Please Note: Course profiles marked as not available may still be in development.
Course description
This course is about knowledge and reality. We will look at questions such as: Is anything known? Can we know anything independently of sense perception? Can we perceive mind-independent objects? Is there a mind-independent world? What are people? What is existence? What is causation? Questions will be examined from the perspectives of a variety of traditions, e.g., Greek and Hellenistic philosophy, modern philosophy, classical Indian philosophy, idealism, pragmatism, analytic philosophy and European philosophy.
Archived offerings
| Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
| Semester 1, 2024 (19/02/2024 - 15/06/2024) | St Lucia | In Person | Course Profile |
| Semester 1, 2023 (20/02/2023 - 17/06/2023) | St Lucia | In Person | Course Profile |
| Semester 1, 2022 (21/02/2022 - 21/06/2022) | St Lucia | Internal | Course Profile |
| Semester 1, 2022 (21/02/2022 - 21/06/2022) | External | External | Course Profile |
| Semester 1, 2021 (22/02/2021 - 19/06/2021) | External | External | Course Profile |
| Semester 2, 2020 (03/08/2020 - 21/11/2020) | External | External | Course Profile |
| Semester 1, 2019 (25/02/2019 - 22/06/2019) | St Lucia | Internal | Course Profile |
| Semester 2, 2017 (24/07/2017 - 18/11/2017) | St Lucia | Internal | Course Profile |
| Semester 1, 2016 (29/02/2016 - 25/06/2016) | St Lucia | Internal | Course Profile |
