Late Modern Philosophy

Undergraduate

In this course students will engage with figures and topics from the period initiated by Kant's Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 and ending, roughly, with Nietzsche's last work in 1888. Figures may include: Kant, Herder, Schleiermacher, Reinhold, Schelling, Schlegel, Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Feuerbach, Marx, Bolzano, Brentano, Meinong, Mill, and Nietzsche. Topics may include: idealism and realism, materialism, social and political philosophy, religion, value, existentialism, psychologism, logic, semantics, philosophy of cognition, and philosophical methodology.