Early Modern Philosophy

Undergraduate

Early modern philosophy is western European philosophy mostly of the 17th and 18th centuries, sometimes indicated as spanning from the early writings of Descartes (c. 1619) to the publication of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781). It encapsulates the break from prior Scholastic and Renaissance traditions in philosophy and science and becomes hugely influential in setting the agenda of western philosophy—in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, ethics, political philosophy, etc.—through the 20th century and up to today.