MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY

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This course begins with a survey of the philosophy of the modern period beginning with Descartes and rationalism (Leibniz, Spinoza), the response of the empiricist tradition (Locke, Berkeley, Hume), and the culmination of this period in the “critic al” philosophy of Kant. Students will then study representative thinkers of continental philosophy, including Hegel and his metaphysical idealism, the fathers of existentialism Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, and major figures of the 20 th century such as Husserl and Heidegger; and of analytic philosophy, such as Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Moore, the Logical Positivists, and Ordinary Language Philosophers. Some attention will typically be given to contributions by Catholic philosophers t o these movements such as Max Scheler; Edith Stein; Elizabeth Anscombe. Prerequisites: PHIL 205, PHIL 206.