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.