Specialization - Reason and Experience in Modern Philosophy
PHIL 3336 Reason and Experience in Modern Philosophy
Prerequisites:
Any 3 credits in Philosophy
Antirequisites:
PHIL 3335
Hours:
Three hours of seminar per week for one term.
Credits:
3
Description:
Students explore seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophical claims about the most reliable source of knowledge. Rationalists such as Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza argue that knowledge comes from reason alone. Empiricists such as Locke and Hume claim that it comes from experience or sensation and feeling. Students also examine Immanuel Kant’s influential effort to resolve this long-running debate through his “Copernican” revolution in philosophy.