Parting of the Ways: Origins of the Analytic/Continental Divide

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Taking Michael Friedman's A Parting of the Ways as a rough guide, this course will examine some major texts in (mostly German) philosophy from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Our aim is to trace the relationship that early analytic philosophy and early continental philosophy have to Kant and Neo-Kantianism. Primary readings from Cohen, Natorp, Frege, Husserl, Cassirer, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Carnap and Sellars. Pre-requisite: at least one philosophy class.