A&H 155 History of Western Philosophy

Content

This course provides a general overview of the main philosophical topics discussed from the pre-Socra­tics to the post-modernists. The course focuses on philosophy of nature, philosophy of mind, meta­physics and epi­ste­mology (other topics are discussed only briefly in order to prevent overlap with other courses). We suc­ces­sively discuss pre-So­crat­ic philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophy, the early and late Middle Ages, Descartes and (French) ration­alism, Hume and (British) empiricism, Kant, (Ger­man) Ideal­ism and Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, phenomenology, exi­stentialism, and postmodernism. Students are re­quired to read primary sources, to write commentaries, and to par­ticipate in debates on philo­sophical questions.

Instructor

Prof. Dr. Andreas Kinneging

Track

Philosophy

Period

Spring / 2010