PHIL 311 - Modern European Philosophy

4 Hour(s) Credit
Study of the critically important period in Western philosophy between 1600 and 1800. Influenced by developments in science and mathematics, philosophers of this period rejected appeals to authority in favor of appeals to observation and reason. Focus on Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume and Kant, and their accounts of what we can know about ourselves, God and the world.
Three hours per week with enhancement.
Prerequisites One philosophy course or permission of instructor.