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Available
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Publication
Great Courses (2010), 18 hours, 36 lectures, 145 pages
Description
Professor Calhoone explores modern and contemporary western philosophy of reality (metaphysics) and knowledge (epistemology), from the 17th to the 20th century, spanning movements such as empircism, rationalism, idealism, philosophy of language, logical positivism, existentialism, pragmatism, phenomenology, and postmodernism.
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
145 p.; 7.5 inches
Local notes
[1] Philosophy and the Modern Age [2] Scholasticism and the Scientific Revolution [3] Rationalism and dualism of Descartes [4] Locke's empiricism, Berkeley's idealism [5] Neo-Aristotelians: Spinoza and Leibniz [6] Enlightenment and Rousseau [7] Radical skepticism of Hume [8] Kant's Copernican revolution [9] Kant and the religion of reason [10] French Revolution and German idealism [11] Hegel, the last great system [12] Hegel and the English century [13] Economic revolution and its critic, Marx [14] Kierkegaard's Critique of reason [15] Nietzsche's Critique of morality and truth [16] Freud, Weber, and the mind of modernity [17] Rise of 20th-century philosophy: pragmatism [18] Rise of 20th-century philosophy: analysis [19] Rise of 20th-century philosophy: phenomenology [20] Physics, positivism and early Wittgenstein [21] Emergence and Whitehead [22] Dewey's American naturalism [23] Heidegger's Being and time [24] Existentialism and the Frankfurt School [25] Heidegger's turn against humanism [26] Culture, hermeneutics, and structuralism [27] Wittgenstein's turn to ordinary language [28] Quine and the end of positivism [29] New philosophies of science [30] Derrida's deconstruction of philosophy [31] Challenge of postmodernism [32] Rorty and the end of philosophy [33] Rediscovering the premodern [34] Pragmatic realism, reforming the modern [34] Reemergence of emergence [36] Philosophy's death greatly exaggerated