Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Spring Semester


Dr. Berg will be teaching Modern Philosophy.


What is Modern Philosophy?


Roughly it covers thinkers from the mid-seventeenth century to the late twentieth century.

People like:

Descartes




Spinoza


Leibniz


Locke


Hume




and Kant.




The Text for our class.The catalog description:
PHIL 305. MODERN PHILOSOPHY. (3) An exploration of major 17th and 18th century Western philosophers, especially Descartes, Hume, and Kant. The questions that modern philosophers raised about God, knowledge, science, and morality have defined the way we think in the 21st century; we are still struggling with the issues they raised.