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PHIL 415

Kant

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelUpper Division
Average gradeB
Standard

Overview

Description

Intensive study of one of his major writings, e.g., the Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, Critique of Judgment, Metaphysics of Morals.

Requirements

Prerequisites

  • 6 credits of philosophy
Original catalog text

Prerequisites

6 credits of philosophy.

Units

Lecture3

Learning Outcomes

  • state a thesis about a key philosophical work by Kant, explain the thesis, and provide evidence, textual and philosophical, in its defense.
  • explain and interpret some central ideas associated with Kant’s philosophy.
  • distinguish better and worse reasoning, and recognize conceptual relationships, in a work by Kant and/or a secondary source that comments critically on it.
  • show what is at stake, for current philosophical debates, in Kant’s philosophical work.