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PHL 3160 - History of Modern Philosophy

Credits: 4
This 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. Attention is also given to the question concerning why the traditional approach to the so-called “History of Modern Philosophy” has been one-sidedly male-dominated, Western, and white.   Area Requirement for Philosophy:  History, Knowledge, Reality
Prerequisite(s): Any 1000 level course and another course in Philosophy or the permission of the professor.
When Offered: H in LS Core