| Syllabus | Announcements |
| Week | Date | Author and work | Section(s) to read | Pages |
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| 1/25 | ||||
| 1/27 | Bacon, The New Organon Bacon, The New Organon Galileo, "Corpuscularism" |
# 1, 3, 15-22, 25-26, 31, 36-46 # 47 - 56 (handout) complete selection |
16 - 20 On moodle 21 - 24 |
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| 2 | 2/1 | Descartes, Meditations | Synopsis, Meditations I and II | 39 - 43 |
| 2/3 | Descartes, Meditations | Meditation III | 46 - 54 | |
| 3 | 2/8 | Descartes, Meditations | Meditations IV and V | 54 - 61 |
| 2/10 | Descartes, Meditations | Meditations V and VI | 58 - 68 | |
| 2/11 | Friday, February 11 is the last day to add or drop a class or change the basis of grading. | |||
| 4 | 2/15 | Descartes, Meditations | Meditation VI | 61 - 68 |
| 2/17 | Pascal, Pensées Leibniz, “On Descartes,” from “Letters ...” |
“The Wager” Letter to Molanus |
106-109 104-105 |
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| 5 | 2/22 | Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Book I - Book II Chapter i # 9 Book II Chapters ii - iii |
316 - 324 328 - 329 |
| 2/24 | Locke, Essay | Book II Chapters v-viii | 330 - 337 | |
| 6 | 3/1 | Locke, Essay | Book II, Chapter ix - Chapter xiii # 5; Book II, Chapter xiv # 1 and #31 |
337 - 342 346 - 348 |
| 3/3 | Locke, Essay | Book II Chapter xxi # 1-5 and # 47-73; Book II Chapter xxii - xxiii |
348-349; 355-357 357 - 367 |
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| 7 | 3/8 | Locke, Essay | Book II Chapter xxiii (continued) Book III Chapter iii - Chapter vi # 4 Book III Chapter vi # 14-28 |
359 - 367 377 - 382 384 - 385 |
| 3/10 | Locke, Essay | Book II Chapter xxvii | 367-377 | |
| 8 | 3/15 | Locke, Essay | Book IV Chapter i - Chapter ii # 6 Chapter iii #1 - #18 Book IV Chapter iv |
386 - 390 392 - 398 403 - 405 |
| 3/17 | Locke, Essay | Book IV Chapter x # 1-12; Book IV Chapters xi and xv |
405 - 408 411 - 417 |
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| 9 | 3/22 | Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous | Dialogue I (excerpts) | 455-464 & 467-474 |
| 3/24 | Hume , Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | Sections II - IV | 4538 - 548 | |
| 10 | 3/29 | Hume,
A Treatise of Human Nature, available for
download. Choose link for pdf or compressed pdf of the entire book. Use the navigation panel to locate the section assigned. ‘(BT)’ page numbers are for the Black and Tait edition found at this site. ‘(SB)’ page numbers are for the Selby-Bigge edition, most widely used in Hume scholarship. |
Book I Part iii Section 12 | (BT) 176 - 191; (SB) 130 - 141 |
| 3/31 | Cesar Chavez Holiday (campus closed) | |||
| 4/4 - 4/9 | Spring Break April 4 – April 9 | |||
| 11 | 4/12 | Hume, Treatise See 3/29 regarding downloading and page numbers. |
Book I Part iii Section 14 | (BT) 206 - 228; (SB) 155-172 |
| 4/14 | Hume, Enquiry | Section V Section VII |
548 - 555 557 - 564 |
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| 12 | 4/19 | Hume, Enquiry | Section VII Section VIII Part 1 |
557 - 564 564 to top left 566, and 571 - 572 |
| 4/21 | Hume, Enquiry | Section X Part I and beginning of Part II |
577 to mid right 582 593 - 600 |
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| 13 | 4/26 | Hume, Treatise See 3/29 regarding downloading and page numbers. |
Book I Part iv Section 6 | (BT) 319-334 (SB) 525 - 532 |
| 4/28 | Kant, Critique of Pure Reason | “Transcendental Aesthetic” Part I § 1; Part II Book II Chapter I Sec. II § 9 and Sec. III § 10 |
729 - 730 239 through table on p. 741 |
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| 14 | 5/3 | Kant, Critique | Part II Book II Chapter I Sec. II § 15-18, 20, 22 | 746 - 751 |
| 5/5 | Kant, Critique | “Second Analogy” | 772 - 776 | |
| 15 | 5/10 | Kant, Critique | “Refutation of Idealism” | 781 - 783 |
| 5/12 | Kant, Critique | Book II Chapter 3 Section 4 | 819 - 823 | |
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