At the end of this course, the student will learn 18th century philosophy covering British empiricism (Locke, Berkeley and Hume) and Kant's critical philosophy by studying
* the empiricist approach to ideas, knowledge and reality.
* the problem of material and spiritual substance in Locke.
* nominalism and idealism of Berkeley.
* Hume's skepticism, and the problem of the principle of causality.
* the Kantian criticism of empiricism and rationalism of the 17th and 18th centuries.
*the Kantian critical idealism.