Fall Session 2021
MONDAYS History of Philosophy: Early Modernity, Matt Dance, MA September 13 - November 1 (8 weeks) | 10:20 a.m. – noon
In-Person: Guzman Lecture Hall | Not Recorded What can be known, and how can we know it? Early modern philosophy significantly revises ancient and medieval attempts to understand reality by giving problems of knowledge primacy over metaphysics. We will examine the rationalism of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz; the empiricism of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume; and the attempt of Kant to reconcile these into a synthesis that still sets the parameters of theoretical philosophy today.
The Stars in the Sky, Steve Bryson, Ph.D. | www.dominican.edu/olli
September 13 - November 1 (8 weeks) | 2:20 – 4:00 p.m.
In-Person: Guzman Lecture Hall | Not Recorded The stars in the sky tell us who we are and how we got here. Starlight is created by stellar furnaces that created the very elements in our bodies. In this course we’ll learn where the Sun and Earth came from, forming together from vast clouds. We’ll learn how stars shine by turning simple elements into heavier ones, and how stellar death spreads those elements into new gas clouds that become new stars and planets.
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