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| 0618-1032-02 | Introduction to Modern Philosophy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
This course is an introductory survey of western European philosophy in the early modern period, with a special emphasis on metaphysical and epistemological issues. It covers the major figures and themes in the seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophy, including René Descartes, Baruch-Benedict Spinoza, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, George Berkeley, David Hume, and Immanuel Kant.
The course introduces students to central themes in the early modern period, such as the nature of knowledge, truth, and reality; conceptions of the self, personal identity, the nature of ideas, mind-body problem, etc.
Students are required to read selected writings of the above philosophers.
The course introduces students to central themes in the early modern period, such as the nature of knowledge, truth, and reality; conceptions of the self, personal identity, the nature of ideas, mind-body problem, etc.
Students are required to read selected writings of the above philosophers.