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May 01, 2024
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2014-2015 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]
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PHL 359 - Heidegger & Continental Philosophy Credits 3 Requirements: Prerequisite: Semester course in Philosophy or permission of instructor Detailed study of Heidegger’s hermeneutic phenomenology, investigated as a response to a 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 metaphysics. 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. Graded
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