An examination of issues at the center of philosophical controversy today, such as the controversy over free will and determinism, the possibility of artificial intelligence, and the Gettier problem.
Discussions range over epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language.
Readings are selected from works written in the second half of this century by philosophers such as Ayer, Foot, Strawson, Frankfurt, Putnam, Boden, Searle, Gettier, Chisholm, and Nagel.