PHIL 210/310 - EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY

Hours: 5/5
An examination and interpretation of the emergence and development of modern philosophy, in the 17th and 18th centuries, as the quest for certainty concerning moral, political, and religious truths in the context of the rise of the physical sciences (especially physics and astronomy), which seem to offer no hope of arriving at any such truths, let alone certainty about them. Ideas whose development will be traced: modern Cosmography, the nature of causality, the distinction between Primary and Secondary Qualities, the nature of space and time, the nature of explanation, the nature of scientific method, the nature and explanation of motion, God’s relation to the physical world, the relation between mental and the physical, the place of humans in the world of science, how knowledge of the physical world is possible, whether knowledge of anything other than the physical world is possible, and the nature, sources, and reality of values.
Notes: Philosophy Majors and Minors must take PHIL 310. PHIL 210 is a substitute for INST 250.

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PHIL 210/310 - EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY