PHIL 2170 Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Philosophy: The History of Modern Philosophy from Descartes

Deals with the 17th and 18th centuries, principally with the following problems: the assimilation of science as faced by Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz; the order of nature suggested by Newtonian science and its effect on Locke, Berkeley, and Hume; natural theology in the Enlightenment; and the natural rights political philosophy of Locek and the British moralists. Prerequisite(s): PHIL 1100 OR PHIL 1120 OR PHIL 1500 OR PHIL 2200
Credits: 3.0