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Apr 25, 2024
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2012-2013 HillBook (Class of 2016) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
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PHL 361 - Descartes to HumeThree Credits
Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013
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): (or Philosophy First-Year Seminar equivalent).
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