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2022-2023 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2022-2023 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

PHL 359 - Philosophy in Germany & France

Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
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.
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