HIST 393 - Twentieth Century Western Thought

Credits 3
Recommended prior coursework: HIST-140. Western philosophy and intellectual history of the 20th century. Topics include logical positivism, philosophy of language, post-Newtonian philosophy of science, status of the Other, neo-pragmatism and global ethics. Readings include Shelley, Conrad, Ayer, Wittgenstein, Levinas, Kuhn, Rorty and Nussbaum.