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The Modern Intellectual Tradition: From Descartes to Derrida

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Get an introduction to the contemporary Western approaches to the philosophies of both reality and knowledge, led by an author and award-winning professor, as you explore the ideas behind modern philosophy's most important movements.

Syllabus

  • 01: Philosophy and the Modern Age
  • 02: Scholasticism and the Scientific Revolution
  • 03: The Rationalism and Dualism of Descartes
  • 04: Locke's Empiricism, Berkeley's Idealism
  • 05: Neo-Aristotelians-Spinoza and Leibniz
  • 06: The Enlightenment and Rousseau
  • 07: The Radical Skepticism of Hume
  • 08: Kant's Copernican Revolution
  • 09: Kant and the Religion of Reason
  • 10: The French Revolution and German Idealism
  • 11: Hegel-The Last Great System
  • 12: Hegel and the English Century
  • 13: The Economic Revolution and Its Critic-Marx
  • 14: Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason
  • 15: Nietzsche's Critique of Morality and Truth
  • 16: Freud, Weber, and the Mind of Modernity
  • 17: Rise of 20th-Century Philosophy-Pragmatism
  • 18: Rise of 20th-Century Philosophy-Analysis
  • 19: Rise of 20th-Century Philosophy-Phenomenology
  • 20: Physics, Positivism, and Early Wittgenstein
  • 21: Emergence and Whitehead
  • 22: Dewey's American Naturalism
  • 23: Heidegger's Being and Time
  • 24: Existentialism and the Frankfurt School
  • 25: Heidegger's Turn against Humanism
  • 26: Culture, Hermeneutics, and Structuralism
  • 27: Wittgenstein's Turn to Ordinary Language
  • 28: Quine and the End of Positivism
  • 29: New Philosophies of Science
  • 30: Derrida's Deconstruction of Philosophy
  • 31: The Challenge of Postmodernism
  • 32: Rorty and the End of Philosophy
  • 33: Rediscovering the Premodern
  • 34: Pragmatic Realism-Reforming the Modern
  • 35: The Reemergence of Emergence
  • 36: Philosophy's Death Greatly Exaggerated
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Lawrence Cahoone

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