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PHIL UN3237 LATE MEDIEVAL & MODERN PHILOS. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: One philosophy course or permission of the instructor.

Study of one or more of the major philosophers from the Renaissance through the 18th century. Sample topics: substance and matter; bodies, minds, and spirits; identity and individuation; ideas of God; causation; liberty and necessity; skepticism; philosophy and science; ethical and political issues. Sample philosophers: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Conway, Locke, Berkely, Hume, Kant.