PHIL 325 - Early Modern European Philosophy

Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3

A study of exemplary philosophical texts from the late 16th through the late 18th century. Figures may include Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Spinoza, Berkeley, Leibniz, Hume, and Kant. Explores such topics as the nature of matter and mind, the possibility and limits of knowledge, and the emerging scientific challenge to church and ancient authority. (Titled Modern Philosophy before 2014-15.)