PHIL 302 - Mind and Knowledge: Descartes to Kant

Credit Hours: 4
Frequency of Offering: Offered annually in the spring semester

The main movements of Western thought from the late Renaissance through the late-18th century. Major ideas in the Rationalist tradition (for example, Descartes, Spinoza, Conway, Leibniz), the Empiricist tradition (Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Wollstonecraft), and Kant and will be examined. Also, selected critics of the presuppositions of this tradition taken as a whole will be studied. Not open to those who have received credit for PHIL 301.