Modern Philosophy and Postmodern Philosophy

Two courses by Stephen R.C. Hicks, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy

Schedule for studio audience delivery

Modern Philosophy

Lecture One: The Birth of the Modern. Francis Bacon

October 1, 10 am.

Lecture Two: Radical Doubt. René Descartes

October 1, 11:15 am.

Lecture Three: The Promise of Individual Empiricism. John Locke

October 1, 12:30 pm.

Lecture Four: The Philosophes and the French Enlightenment. Voltaire

October 2, 10 am.

Lecture Five: Counter-Enlightenment. David Hume and Jean-Jacques Rousseau

October 2, 11:15 am.

Lecture Six: Awakening from the Dogmatic Slumber. Immanuel Kant

October 2, 12:30 pm.

Lecture Seven: Resurgent Collectivism. Georg Hegel and Karl Marx

October 3, 10 am.

Lecture Eight: Liberal or Anti-Liberal? John Stuart Mill and Friedrich Nietzsche

October 3, 11:15 am.

Postmodern Philosophy

Lecture One: Uncertain Prospects. Bertrand Russell and John Dewey

October 6, 10 am.

Lecture Two: The Analysts of the Self. Sigmund Freud and Martin Heidegger

October 6, 11:15 am.

Lecture Three: Absurdity and Meaninglessness? Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus

October 6, 12:30 pm.

Lecture Four: What the Women Ethicists Are Up To. Ayn Rand and Philippa Foot

October 7, 10 am.

Lecture Five: On the Objectivity of Science. Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn

October 7, 11:15 am.

Lecture Six: Deconstruction and Power. Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault

October 7, 12:30 pm.

Lecture Seven: Critical Feminist and Race Theory. Catharine MacKinnon and Derrick Bell

October 8, 10 am.

Lecture Eight: Premodern, Modern, and Postmodern

October 8, 11:15 am.