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PHL 361 - Descartes to Hume

Three Credits
Fall Semester

Renaissance skepticism and the birth of Cartesianism. Descartes’ mathematicism and the methodic doubt. The Meditations. The thinking self, proofs for God’s existence, Cartesian dualism, and the problem of mind-body interaction. Locke’s critique of innate ideas. Berkeley’s immaterialism. Hume’s empiricism as a prelude to Kantianism.

Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): One 100-Level Philosophy course.