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 Unit Description:
 This unit introduces central philosophical problems about relations between knowledge and reality, or
 about our ‘hook-up' to the world. Topics covered may include perception, colour, dreams, memory and the
 past, scepticism, the nature of explanation, rationality and irrationality, perspectivism, subjectivity and
 objectivity, testimony, and certainty. With a focus on the later work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, the unit
 provides a detailed survey of current debates in epistemology (theory of knowledge), with some attention
 to philosophy of science, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of the social sciences, and
 philosophy of language. Students will continue to develop skills in argument by addressing key questions
 about realism and relativism in a range of philosophical domains.

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