Lecturers:

Assoc. Prof. Iassen Zahariev, PhD

Course Description:

Competencies:

Successful graduates of the course students:

1) know:

• Main ideas and concepts in the philosophy of J. Locke and D. Hume.

• Basic features of the English and Scottish Enlightenment.

2) can:

• Apply various theories and concepts.

• Analyse different cultural issues.

Prerequisites:
None

Types:
Full-time Programmes

Types of Courses:
Lecture

Language of teaching:
English

Topics:

1. The empiricist tradition in the modern philosophy
2. The life and works of John Locke
3. Locke’s epistemology and Newtonian physics
4. Mind’s ideas and concepts
5. Tabula rasa, sense perception and experience
6. Property and freedom. The second treatise of Government
7. An Essay Concerning Toleration
8. The life and works of David Hume
9. The human nature and the knowledge of the world
10. The origin and nature of ideas
11. Knowledge, causation and probability
12. Hume’s ethics
13. On the standard of taste
14. The problem of identity
15. Locke, Hume and the modern empiricism

Bibliography:

Ayer, A. J. Hume

Ayers, M. Locke: Epistemology and Ontology

Chappell, V. The Cambridge Companion to Locke

Garber, D. (ed.), The Cambridge History of Seventeenth Century philosophy

Hume, D. A Treatise on Human Nature

Hume, D. Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Hume, D. Four Dissertations.

Locke, J. Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Locke, J. Two Treatises of Government

Locke, J. An Essay Concerning Toleration.

Norton, D. The Cambridge Companion to Hume

Woolhouse, R. The Empiricists

Assessment:

Mid-semester exams:

1. Analysis;

2. Annotation;

End-semester exam:

1. Presentation;

2. Discussion.