PHL 450 - Hume’s Challenge to Reason

Course Units: 1.0

(TBD: Staff) In the eighteenth century, David Hume issued a series of challenges to human reason that ever since have been at the center of much of Western Philosophy. Hume argued that the fundamental principles of philosophy, science, and even morality are based not on reason but on instincts and emotions. This course examines Hume’s challenge and how philosophers after Hume (such as Reid, Shepherd, and Kant) have tried to address it. CC: HUM, WAC-R, WS