PHL 708
Early Modern Philosophy
This course examines the foundations of modern philosophy in the two dominant traditions of the 17th and 18th century: rationalism and empiricism. The philosophers studied include Descartes, Hume and Kant, and a selection of their contemporaries, e.g. Berkeley, Cavendish, du Chatelet, Conway, Leibniz, Locke, Malebranche, Reid, Shepherd, Spinoza. Topics may include the foundations and limits of knowledge, the nature of reality, skepticism, causation, the mind-body relation, person-hood, free will, good and evil, passions and emotions.
PHL 708 Requisite Information:
PHL 708 Let's You Take:
Antirequisite: PHL 403
- PHL 506 - Early Modern Rationalism
- PHL 508 - The Empiricists
- PHL 511 - Kant
- PHL 513 - Phenomenology
- PHL 600 - Classic Readings in Analytic Philosophy
- PHL 601 - Classic Readings Continental Philosophy
- PHL 700 - Meta-Philosophy
- PHL 752 - German Idealism
Antirequisite: PHL 403
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