PHILOS 100C
History of Modern Philosophy, 1650 to 1800
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Preparation: one philosophy course. Strongly recommended requisite: course 100B. Courses 100A, 100B, and 100C should be taken in immediately successive terms if possible. Survey of development of metaphysics and theory of knowledge from 1650 to 1800, including Locke and/or Berkeley, Malebranche and/or Leibniz, and culminating in Hume and Kant. Topics may include views of these (and perhaps other) philosophers of the period on mind and body, causality, existence of God, skepticism, empiricism, limits of human knowledge, and philosophical foundations of modern science. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Don't take 100C with Prof. Brown. She tries but fails at clarifying material for you, and her lectures drag on and on and on. If you can avoid it, try another professor. I also had her for Philos 7. With that class she was much better at explaining material, though her quizzes were still ridiculously confusing and technical.
Don't take 100C with Prof. Brown. She tries but fails at clarifying material for you, and her lectures drag on and on and on. If you can avoid it, try another professor. I also had her for Philos 7. With that class she was much better at explaining material, though her quizzes were still ridiculously confusing and technical.
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Spring 2022 - Overall good philosophy class and a clear lecturer. The grading scheme is pretty simple with 2 essays (6 pages each) and one take-home final. There was no other homework or quizzes. I recommend using the examples Prof. Carriero goes over in lecture to help explain topics in your essay. The lectures were all bruincasted which was very helpful. Small nitpick but the Prof. is a slow talker so around week 5 I stopped going to lectures and would watch the recorded version at 1.25 or 1.5 time speed. The Prof. himself felt like a very chill and nice person. Oh and the textbooks you need round off to about 50 dollars but you can honestly find them all online if need be.
Spring 2022 - Overall good philosophy class and a clear lecturer. The grading scheme is pretty simple with 2 essays (6 pages each) and one take-home final. There was no other homework or quizzes. I recommend using the examples Prof. Carriero goes over in lecture to help explain topics in your essay. The lectures were all bruincasted which was very helpful. Small nitpick but the Prof. is a slow talker so around week 5 I stopped going to lectures and would watch the recorded version at 1.25 or 1.5 time speed. The Prof. himself felt like a very chill and nice person. Oh and the textbooks you need round off to about 50 dollars but you can honestly find them all online if need be.
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Spring 2021 - Dewitt relishes in making her course harder than they need to be. I am a fourth year philosophy major and have never experienced someone as obnoxious in their delight of making their students struggle. She had issues in her personal life, which I was completely sympathetic of. However, it resulted in a horribly unorganized quarter. Although we were expected to be understanding of her circumstances she was in no way considerate of student time or lives. She made up deadlines and was unwavering in her idiotic scheduling of things. You would think that since she was effectively screwing us with posting lectures late, or not at all at time, that she would reflect that with flexibilities with deadlines but instead we had to assume the consequences of her failures. This class should not have been difficult but she lost control very early on and made it exponentially worse. In addition, she within her lectures I often found myself cringing at her lack of compassion or awareness on many social issues. I am not sensitive or overly politically correct but she was on the verge of spewing overtly racist nonsense daily. Overall would say to just avoid her if possible, not a caring teacher nor an efficient lecturer.
Spring 2021 - Dewitt relishes in making her course harder than they need to be. I am a fourth year philosophy major and have never experienced someone as obnoxious in their delight of making their students struggle. She had issues in her personal life, which I was completely sympathetic of. However, it resulted in a horribly unorganized quarter. Although we were expected to be understanding of her circumstances she was in no way considerate of student time or lives. She made up deadlines and was unwavering in her idiotic scheduling of things. You would think that since she was effectively screwing us with posting lectures late, or not at all at time, that she would reflect that with flexibilities with deadlines but instead we had to assume the consequences of her failures. This class should not have been difficult but she lost control very early on and made it exponentially worse. In addition, she within her lectures I often found myself cringing at her lack of compassion or awareness on many social issues. I am not sensitive or overly politically correct but she was on the verge of spewing overtly racist nonsense daily. Overall would say to just avoid her if possible, not a caring teacher nor an efficient lecturer.
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