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2014-2015 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2014-2015 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

PHL 371 - History of Contemporary Analytic & Continental Philosophy

Credits 3
Requirements: Prerequisite: Semester course in Philosophy or permission of instructor
Examines the historical development of major trends in contemporary Anglo-American or analytic philosophy and continental European philosophy. topics include the formal approaches of Frege and Russell, logical positivism, ordinary language philosophy, hermeneutics, and phenomenology. Attention will be given to areas of dialogue between traditions and to similarities of content often overlooked due to methodological and stylistic differences.
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