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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course will introduce you to the Western philosophical tradition, through the study of major figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, and Kant. You will get to grips with questions that have been significant to philosophy from its beginnings: questions about the nature of the mind or soul, the existence of God, the foundation
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The seminar will explore the phenomenon of a priori knowledge. We'll consider some notable attempts to account for a priori knowledge in the history of philosophy (e.g., by Plato, Descartes, Hume, and Kant), some influential critiques of the notion; we will end by considering some contemporary approaches to the a priori.
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- linguistics and philosophy
- a priori knowledge
- plato
- descartes
- hume
- kant
- leibniz
- locke
- hume and the positivists
- history of philosophy
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