EMPIRICISM, SKEPTICISM & MATERIALISM in Fall 2025 (PL2037)

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In this course we shall examine the birth of empiricism in polemics over the origins of knowledge and political authority, the limits of human reason, and the possibility of philosophy itself finding a way out of the seventeenth century's religious wars and tyranny towards the creation of free and tolerant societies of rational individuals. Readings from Descartes, Locke, Berkeley and Hume.

Course Master: 
EMPIRICISM, SKEPTICISM & MATERIALISM (PL2037)
Term: 
Fall 2025
Discipline: 
PL (Philosophy)
Credits: 
4 credits
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Undergraduate
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None

Professor(s)

Learning Outcomes

  1. Display interdisciplinary imagination by building a bridge between empiricist philosophy and other disciplines or practices.
  2. Express philosophical arguments in oral and written form with a higher degree of clarity than when entering the course.
  3. Identify and define key concepts and principles in empiricist philosopher.
  4. Reconstruct a context for a particular argument or question within empiricist philosophy.
  5. Reconstruct key theses and arguments in empiricist philosophy.
  6. Through completing the readings and carrying out the assessments in a rigorous manner by the end of this course students should be able to:

Syllabus

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Book List

TitleAuthorPublisherISBN Number
Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume
Oxford UP
9780198751724

Schedule

Start Date: 
Monday, September 1, 2025
End Date: 
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
10:35
11:55
C-505
Thursday
10:35
11:55
C-505