Philip Corkum
Contact
Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts - Philosophy Dept
- pcorkum@ualberta.ca
Courses
PHIL 102 - Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality
An introduction to the classical problems of philosophy through study and critical discussion of selected philosophical classics and contemporary works. Emphasis will be placed on questions of the nature and extent of human knowledge and classic problems about the nature of reality and our place in it.
PHIL 200 - Metaphysics
Basic questions concerning the nature of reality. Topics may include existence, materialism and idealism, freedom and determinism, appearance and reality, causality, identity, time and space, universals and particulars.
PHIL 215 - Epistemology
A study of such central topics in the theory of knowledge as truth and rationality, skepticism and the limits of knowledge, relativism and the objectivity of knowledge, the role of perception, memory and reason as sources of knowledge.
PHIL 230 - Ancient Greek Philosophy
A survey of the thought of the ancient Greek world from its beginnings with the Pre-Socratics up to and including Aristotle.
PHIL 400 - Topics in Metaphysics
Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.
PHIL 500 - Metaphysics