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.