Introduction to Metaphysics: Understanding the nature, scope, and aims of metaphysics as a branch of philosophy. Exploring its historical development and relationship with other philosophical disciplines.
Metaphysical Inquiry: Studying the methods and approaches used in metaphysical inquiry, including rational analysis, conceptual analysis, thought experiments, and thought experiments.
Ontology: Exploring questions of existence, reality, and being. Studying different ontological theories, such as realism, idealism, materialism, dualism, and monism.
Nature of Reality: Analyzing different conceptions of reality, including substance, property, event, process, and relation. Examining debates over the ultimate nature of reality and the structure of the world.
Mind and Body: Investigating the mind-body problem and theories of the relationship between mind and body, such as substance dualism, identity theory, functionalism, and eliminative materialism.
Free Will and Determinism: Exploring metaphysical theories of free will and determinism, including compatibilism, incompatibilism, libertarianism, and hard determinism. Analyzing debates over the nature of human agency and moral responsibility.