PHIL-P 211 EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY (3 CR.)
Selective survey of 17th- and 18th-century philosophy including some or all of: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant.
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Spring 2024
Component | Credits | Class | Status | Time | Day | Facility | Instructor |
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LEC | 3 | 11400 | Closed | 3:00 p.m.–4:15 p.m. | TR | RA B111 | Abramson K |
Regular Academic Session / In Person
LEC 11400: Total Seats: 25 / Available: 0 / Waitlisted: 0
Lecture (LEC)
- COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq
- COLL INTENSIVE WRITING SECTION
- IUB GenEd A&H credit
- Above class COLL Intensive Writing section
- IUB GenEd A&H credit
- COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
Descartes through Kant If there¿s one phrase that could capture the early modern period in philosophy, it would be: ¿and then, everything changed.¿ From conceptions of the mind, to moral and political philosophy, to theories of knowledge-- all that had been taken for granted was called into question. You might have heard of some of the philosophers involved in these debates: e.g. Rene Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume. Others you probably haven¿t heard of: e.g. Margaret Cavendish, Elizabeth of Bohemia, Mary Astell, Francis Bacon. Still others you may have heard of, but not realized that they wrote important philosophical works¿e.g. Galileo. Equally various were the ways in which these philosophers argued for their views. They wrote brief arguments, systematic Treatises, meditations, utopias, miscellany, and even what may well be the very first work of science fiction. This is a survey class. We will read many philosophers, on many topics, with the goals of understanding not only the details of their arguments, but also the ways in which those arguments changed forever the framework for debates in philosophy.