PHIL 267

Early Modern Philosophy

Please note: this is archived course information from 2016 for PHIL 267.

Description

Examines important developments in seventeenth and eighteenth-century philosophy. It will look at refinements in philosophical methodology during this period and their impact on metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind and ethics.

Availability 2016

Semester 1

Lecturer(s)

Lecturer(s) Dr Glen Pettigrove

Reading/Texts

Meditations by Rene Descartes
An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue by Francis Hutcheson
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous by George Berkeley
An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Points

PHIL 267: 15 points

Prerequisites

30 points in Philosophy, or EUROPEAN 100 and 15 points in Philosophy

Restrictions

PHIL 208, 309, 328