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2009-2010 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

PHL 359 - Heidegger and Contemporary Continental Philosophy

3 credits
Prerequisites: Semester course in Philosophy, or permission of instructor
Detailed study of Heidegger’s hermeneutic phenomenology, investigated as a response to an historical view of subjectivity initiated by Descartes and continued by Kant and Husserl. More broadly, the course examines Heidegger’s view that his philosophy was a corrective to the tradition of Western meta-physics. Heidegger’s influence on Derrida, Merleau-Ponty, and Gadamer, among others, is examined. The implications of Heidegger’s thinking in relation to theories of human cognition and the possibility of artificial intelligence is also explored.