PRS 302 - Modern Philosophy

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Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max:

Description: This course is a study in two contrasting traditions of philosophy that arose in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries: continental rationalism and British empiricism. Philosophers covered include Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. Of central concern will be these philosophers' views on the nature of knowledge and perception as well as their accounts of the fundamental components of reality. The course concludes with a brief introduction to the philosophy of Immanuel Kant.