Ontological issues concerning God or Necessary Being, Mind, Self and Personal Identity, Universals and Particulars, Primary and Secondary Qualities, and Fictional Objects .
Understanding the place of Mind in the Natural World, the distinction between Being-in-itself and Being-for-itself, Agency and Freedom, Subjective and Objective, Consciousness and Self-Consciousness, and the notion of Inter-subjectivity.
Special study on the conceptualization of reality in terms of Phenomena and Noumena will form an important part of the course.