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Academic Year 2003/2004
Philosophical Classics II: Early Modern Philosophy from Descartes Through Kant
PHIL 202 SP
This course is a study of major texts representing the principal theories concerning knowledge, reality, and value developed in the 17th and 18th centuries from the standpoints of rationalism (Descartes, Spinoza,
Leibniz)
and empiricism (Locke, Berkeley, Hume) and concluding with Kant's Copernican Revolution in philosophy.
MAJOR READINGS
Selected works of Descartes, Bacon, Galileo, Locke, Leibniz, Newton, Hume and Kant.
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Two take-home papers.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA PHIL
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Horst,Steven W.
- Times: ..T.R.. 02:40PM-04:00PM; Location: FISK302
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 40)
- SR. major: 5 Jr. major: 10
- SR. non-major: 2 Jr. non-major: 7 SO: 8 FR: 8
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Last Updated on MAR-19-2004
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