Reimagining Early Modern Philosophy

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Course Description: Historically underrepresented figures and topics in early modern philosophy. Early modern women philosophers, such as Margaret Cavendish, Elisabeth of Bohemia, and Anne Conway. African philosophers or freed slaves such as Anton Wilhelm Amo and Olaudah Equiano. Topics may include the relation between the mind and the body, human nature, human diversity, equality, the ethics of slavery, and the nature of race and gender.