You weren't born yesterday. You come to this course with all the wisdom and knowledge that your life has provided you. T his information is valuable and represents a significant portion of your contribution to the course. Lets find out where you stand and get a baseline of your appreciation of philosophy.

We begin the course considering Meta-philosophy; thinking through a suitable definition for Philosophy and examining our meta-cognitions of that process. We have a cursory glimpse at some early philosopher' attempts to consider the nature of reality through reason and experience apart from religion, myth, art or power. We label this branch of philosophy Meta-physics and it includes, among other studies, ontology-of what is, cosmology-of space time and objects, and mereology-of part to whole relations.

One important measure of your progress in Philosophy is determined by the ability to examine and critique important philosophical arguments. You are required to master an outline form that provides a schemata for clearly presenting your ideas. Examine the following "Toy Journal Article" It's deliberately very bad. Check out the "Toy exegesis and critique." Look for something else wrong with the journal article and create your own analysis.

Project Selector Interface - Dir. William Angelette MA, MS.

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