Alan Charles Kors (born July 18, 1943) is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches the intellectual history of the 17th and 18th centuries. He has received both the Lindback Foundation Award and the Ira Abrams Memorial Award for distinguished college teaching. Dr. Kors graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1964, and he received his M.A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1968) from Harvard University, in European History. He is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Human History
04 - The New Astronomy and Cosmology
03 - The New Vision of Francis Bacon
Descartes - The Method of Modern Philosophy
01 - IntroductionóIntellectual History and Conceptual Change
Galileo and the New Astronomy
06 - The Specter of Thomas Hobbes
05 - Descartes's Dream of Perfect Knowledge
Rousseau's Dissent
11 - The Lockean Moment
02 - The Dawn of the 17th CenturyóAristotelian Scholasticism
Bacon's New Organon and the New Science
Locke - The Revolution of Knowledge
Bayle - Skepticism and Calvinism
Pascal - Skepticism and Jansenism
Introduction - Part IV
09 - The Newtonian Revolution
08 - Newton's Discovery
Newton and Enlightened Science
Montesquieu and Political Thought
Hume's Natural Religion
23 - Rousseau's Dissent
07 - Skepticism and JansenismóBlaise Pascal
01 - Introductiono´Intellectual History and Conceptual Change
22 - Beccaria and Enlightened Reform
16 - Montesquieu and the Problem of Relativism
14 - Introduction to Deism
12 - Skepticism and CalvinismóPierre Bayle
02 - The Dawn of the 17th Centuryo´Aristotelian Scholasticism
18 - Bishop Joseph Butler and God's Providence
15 - The Conflict Between Deism and Christianity
10 - John LockeóThe Revolution in Knowledge
19 - The Skeptical Challenge to OptimismóDavid Hume
13 - The ModernsóThe Generation of 1680-1715
01 - IntroductionóIntellectual History and Conceptual Changee
10 - John Lockeo´The Revolution in Knowledge
21 - The PhilosophesóThe Triumph of the French Enlightenment
13 - The Modernso´The Generation of 1680-1715
20 - The Assault upon Philosophical OptimismóVoltaire
24 - Materialism & NaturalismóThe Boundaries of the Enlightenment
17 - VoltaireóBringing England To France
07 - Skepticism and JansenismóBlaise Pascall
02 - The Dawn of the 17th CenturyóAristotelian Scholasticismm
12 - Skepticism and CalvinismóPierre Baylee
17 - Voltaireo´Bringing England To France
29 • Galileo and the New Astronomy
31 • Descartes—The Method of Modern Philosophy
12 - Skepticism and Calvinismo´Pierre Bayle
The New Vision of Francis Bacon
Montesquieu and the Problem of Relativism
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