Early Modern Philosophy

1.00 credits · Undergraduate

This course examines the foundations of modern philosophy in the two dominant traditions of the 17th and 18th century: rationalism and empiricism. The philosophers studied include Descartes, Hume and Kant, and a selection of their contemporaries, e.g. Berkeley, Cavendish, du Chatelet, Conway, Leibniz, Locke, Malebranche, Reid, Shepherd, Spinoza. Topics may include the foundations and limits of knowledge, the nature of reality, skepticism, causation, the mind-body relation, person-hood, free will, good and evil, passions and emotions.