PHI 243 Early Modern Philosophy

Authors

Naomi Zack PhD, CUNY Lehman CollegeFollow

Document Type

Syllabus

Publication Date

Spring 2025

Abstract

This course will introduce the student to key authors and texts in the history of modern western philosophy, from the 17^th and 18^th centuries--Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. The focus will be on metaphysics (what exists) and epistemology (how we know, what knowledge is and what we know); universal human identity (what am I? and what makes me the same person?); what some philosophers thought the role of God is in metaphysics and epistemology. Included will be historical contexts of the philosophers studied, and their religious claims.

Comments

This OER was created under the CUNY/SUNY Scale Up Initiative grant, 2024-2025, sponsored by the CUNY Office of Library Services.

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