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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PHL 3160 - History of Modern Philosophy

Credits: 4
The course traces the empiricist and rationalist foundations of modern philosophy, as well as its relations to developments in those fields which have come to be known as natural sciences and social sciences, by close readings of the texts of Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant.   Area Requirement for Philosophy:  History, Knowledge, Reality
Prerequisite(s): PHL 1000  or PHL 1100  or PHL 1200  and another course in Philosophy or the permission of the professor.