Undergraduate Course: Modern Continental Philosophy (PHIL10009)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will present two distinct strands of thought in continental philosophy. The first term will begin with Kant and Hegel. We will consider how their ideas were to be challenged and developed by Feuerbach; Marx; Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. The second part of the course will be concerned with phenomenology and its relation to the analytic tradition. Brentano, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty will be compared with Frege and Wittgenstein. |
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Visiting students should have at least 3 Philosophy courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses. |
Course Delivery Information
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Additional Information
| Course URL |
http://www.philosophy.ed.ac.uk |
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Additional Class Delivery Information |
Class location: G.06 DSB |
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Julian Kiverstein
Tel: (0131 6)51 6333
Email: J.Kiverstein@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Susan Richards
Tel: (0131 6)51 3733
Email: sue.richards@ed.ac.uk |
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