A portrait of W. E. B. Du Bois by Winold Reiss, circa 1920. Du Bois' concept of "double consciousness" is the focus for Session 23. (Image courtesy of Cliff on flickr. License CC BY.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Sally Haslanger
Milo Phillips-Brown
(Teaching Assistant)
Kevin Richardson
(Teaching Assistant)
Said Saillant
(Writing Tutor)
MIT Course Number
24.01
As Taught In
Spring 2016
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course will introduce you to the Western philosophical tradition through the study of thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Cavendish, Hume, and Kant. You'll grapple with questions that have been significant to philosophy from its beginnings: Questions about the nature of the mind, the existence of God, the foundations of knowledge, and the good life. You'll also observe changes of intellectual outlook over time, and the effect of scientific, religious, and political concerns on the development of philosophical ideas.
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