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| Semester: | Spring 2024 |
| Number: | 0154-312-001 |
| Instructor: | Joshua Kaye |
| Days: | Tuesday Thursday 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm |
| Note: | Traditional In-Person Class |
| Location: | Garden City - NEX 241 |
| Credits: | 3 |
| Course Materials: | View Text Books |
| Description: |
European philosophy had a dramatic rebirth in the 17th Century, as thinkers attempted to make sense of modernity as experienced in the growth of commerce, exploration, and scientific knowledge. What could be known? Could science and religion co-exist? Philosophers read include: René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Baruch Spinoza. (Distribution Reqs:Humanities) |
| Learning Goals: |
COURSE LEARNING GOALS: Students will be able to…1.Recognize some of the major philosophical problems from the early modern period (roughly 1600-1700), such as the problem of knowledge and the problem of reconciling science and religion.2.Critically evaluate some important philosophical texts from the early modern period, such as Descartes’ Meditations and Locke’s Essay.Differentiate philosophical ideas, such as skepticism, foundationalism, rationalism, empiricism, corpuscularianism, materialism, and dualism. GENERAL EDUCATION LEARNING GOALS:This course especially applies to the following Learning Goals: (1) Communication and (2) Critical & Integrative Thinking. *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here. |
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