PHIL 309
Early Modern Philosophy
Please note: this is archived course information from 2016 for PHIL 309.
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 309: 15 points
Prerequisites
30 points at Stage II in Philosophy, or EUROPEAN 100 and 15 points at Stage II in Philosophy
Restrictions
PHIL 208, 267, 328