PH 316 - Time, Identity, and Change

What is a person? Do humans have free will? Is everything we do pre-determined? What is a cause? Is time real? Do the past and future exist? How can objects or persons persist through time? How can simple objects combine to form more complex objects? This course examine philosophical answers to these questions, including: Perdurantism, Endurantism, Austere Nominalism, Universalism, A and B Theories of Time, Counterpart Theory, Mereological Nihilism, Constitution Theory, Libertarianism, Compatiblism, Hard Determinism.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credits: 3