PL 3104 - Metaphysics and Epistemology

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Polytechnic Institute of New York University

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Metaphysics seeks to answer general questions concerning the nature of reality: What does reality consist of? What are the presuppositions that underliy inquiry into nature? Epistemology seeks to answer general questions concerning the nature of knowledge: What is knowledge? How is it obtained? This course surveys answers to these and related questions in the works of five important philosophers in the western tradition: Aristotle, St. Aquinas, Leibniz, Kant and Whitehead. Prerequisite: One 2000-level PL course.

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3.00

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Multiple

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Institution Website:

www.poly.edu

Phone Number:

(718) 260-3100

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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