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PHL 361 - Descartes to Hume

Three 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): GENP 100  or GENP 140 .


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