This course is a broad survey of some of the major areas of contemporary philosophy. The course focuses on six topics chosen from main areas of current philosophy. These vary from semester to semester, include the existence of god, the existence of the external world, and free will. Other topics rotate from semester to semester between the problem of induction, foundationalism vs. coherentism, personal identity, time travel, the mind/body problem, views of normative ethics, realism vs. relativism in meta-ethics, the meaning of life, objectivism vs. subjectivism in aesthetics, political philosophy in semesters that include elections, and current issues in applied ethics chosen by class vote at the beginning of the semester
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