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2016/17 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

PHIL2521 Realism and Antirealism

20 creditsClass Size: 100

Module manager: Dr. Robert Knowles
Email: r.knowles@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2016/17

Pre-requisite qualifications

40 credits in Philosophy/HPS at level 1

Module replaces

PHIL2610 Introduction to Metaphysics

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Objectives

On completion of this module, students will have become acquainted with a central debate in contemporary metaphysics that provides a framework for further work in ontology (especially in PHIL3521 Being), and should be able to discern connections between semantic and ontological issues.

Syllabus

This course will introduce the various issues of realism and anti-realism in contemporary metaphysics.

We will distinguish and relate various relevant issues within the broad headings of: existence and nature, truth and meaning, and mind-dependence and mind-independence.

We will consider how the realism issues unfold in a variety of cases such as the perceptible properties (shapes and colours), moral values, numbers, possibility and causation.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lecture	11	1.00	11.00
Seminar	10	1.00	10.00
Private study hours			179.00
Total Contact hours			21.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Private study

- 9 hours preparation per seminar: 90 hours
- Essay preparation: 44 hours
- Exam revision: 45 hours.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

1 x 2,000-word assessed essay, to be submitted during the course of the module.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	2,000 words	50.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		50.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Exams

Exam type	Exam duration	% of formal assessment
Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc)	2 hr 00 mins	50.00
Total percentage (Assessment Exams)		50.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 07/09/2016

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