printer friendly pagePHIL 212: Causality in Ancient Greek Philosophy (PHIL 112)
Last offered: Spring 2016
PHIL 213: Hellenistic Philosophy (PHIL 113)
Epicureans, skeptics, and stoics on epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, and psychology.
Last offered: Winter 2008
PHIL 215: Problems in Medieval Philosophy: Islamic Aristotelianism and Western Scholasticism (PHIL 115)
The western world adopted Aristotle's metaphysics and natural philosophy as the foundation of its educational system and scholarly life between 1210 and 1255. Christian Europe was thereby following the example set by Islam in Spain and the Near East. Today some people believe that this development was independent, and others think that the scholastics copied even their methods from Arabic philosophers. Historical evaluation of those claims.
Last offered: Spring 2010
| Repeatable
for credit
PHIL 216: Aquinas (PHIL 116)
This course is an introduction to the metaphysical thought of St. Thomas Aquinas (1225 ¿ 1274), one of the most important and influential philosopher-theologians of the High Middle Ages. Readings will be drawn primarily from the "Summa theologiae."
Last offered: Spring 2016
PHIL 217: Descartes (PHIL 117)
(Formerly 121/221.) Descartes's philosophical writings on rules for the direction of the mind, method, innate ideas and ideas of the senses, mind, God, eternal truths, and the material world.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
Instructors:
De Pierris, G. (PI)
PHIL 218A: Origins of Empiricism: Gassendi, Locke, and Berkeley (PHIL 118A)
Particular light is shed on both the strengths and weaknesses of empiricism by studying it as it first arose during the 17th century revolution in philosophy and the sciences initiated by Descartes. Three philosophers of that period helped to advance empiricism: Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655), John Locke (1632-1704), and George Berkeley (1685-1753). A brief introduction to Descartes is followed by Gassendi's reaction to Descartes and his influence on Locke; Locke's theory of ideas, mind, language, reality, and natural philosophy expounded in his An Essay concerning Human Understanding (Fourth Edition, 1689); and Berkeley's later reaction to Locke.
Last offered: Spring 2014
PHIL 219: Rationalists (PHIL 119)
Developments in 17th-century continental philosophy. Descartes's views on mind, necessity, and knowledge. Spinoza and Leibniz emphazing their own doctrines and their criticism of their predecessors. Prerequisite: 102.
Last offered: Winter 2013
PHIL 220A: The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence (PHIL 120A)
Correspondence on metaphysics, theology, and science.
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