PHIL 202, Modern Philosophy
Spring, 2011

Schedule of assignments
Updated April 19, 2011

Professor Stern
Phone: (818) 677-4853
Sierra Tower, Room 508
Office hours: Tu Th 7:00 - 7:45 AM and 9:30 - 10:30 AM; Tu 3:30 - 4:00 PM
Email: cindy.stern@csun.edu
Syllabus Announcements

Readings should be done by date on which they are listed. Come to class ready to discuss the day’s readings. (Having questions about the readings qualifies as readiness to discuss.)

This schedule may be modified in during the course of the semester. Watch your eamil and the class announceemnts pagefor rapid notice of changes for the next few days. Updating of this page may be delayed until I am able to make compensating assignments for subsequent dates as well.

Week Date Author and work Section(s) to read Pages
1
 1/25


1/27 CLASS CANCELED
2 2/1 Bacon, The New Organon
Bacon, The New Organon
Galileo, "Corpuscularianism" 		# 1, 3, 15-22, 25-26, 31, 36-46
# 47 - 56 (handout)
complete selection		 16 - 20
On moodle
21 - 24
2/3 Descartes, Meditations Synopsis, Meditations I and II 39 - 47
3 2/8 Descartes, Meditations Meditation III 47 - 54
2/10 Descartes, Meditations Meditation III 47 - 54
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 Meditations IV and VI 54 - 58
2/17 Descartes, Meditations Meditations V and VI 58 - 68
5 2/22 Pascal, Pensées “The Wager” 106-109
2/24 CLASS CANCELED
6 3/1 Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book I - Book II Chapter i # 9
Book II Chapters ii - iii 		316 - 324
328 - 329
3/3 Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book II Chapters v-viii 330 - 337
7 3/8 Locke, Essay Book II, Chapter viii 332 - 342
3/10 Locke, Essay Book II, Chapter viii - Chapter xiii # 5;
Book II, Chapter xiv # 1 and #31		 332 - 342
346 - 348
8 3/15 Locke, Essay Book II Chapter xxi # 1-5 and # 47-73;
Book II Chapter xxii - xxiii		 348-349; 355-357
357 - 367
3/17 Locke, Essay Book II Chapter xxii - xxiii 357 - 367
9 3/22 Locke, Essay Book II Chapters xxiii and xxvii 359 - 377
3/24 Locke, Essay Book II Chapter xxvii
Book III Chapter iii # 6, 7, and 11 - 15
Book III Chapter vi # 2-4, 9, 26, and 28		 367 - 377
377 - 380
381 - 384
10 3/29 Locke, Essay

Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding		 Book IV Chapter i - Chapter ii #13
Book IV Chapter xi # 1-10
Sections II - IV		 386 - 390
411 - 414
538 - 548
3/31 Cesar Chavez Holiday (campus closed)

4/4 - 4/9 Spring Break April 4 – April 9
11 4/12 Hume, Enquiry Section IV Part ii 545 - 548
4/14 TEST 1
12 4/19 CLASS CANCELED
4/21 Hume, Enquiry
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. 		Section V
Book I Part iii Section 14		 548 - 555
(BT) 206 - 228 or
(SB) 155-172
13 4/23 Hume, Treatise

Hume, Enquiry 		Book I Pt. iii Sec. 14 continued

Section VII Part II		 (BT) 206 - 228 or
(SB) 155-172
562 - 564
4/28 Hume, Enquiry Section VIII Part 1 564 - 572
14 5/3 Hume, Enquiry Section XII 593 - 600
5/5 Kant, Critique “Transcendental Aesthetic” Part I § 1;
Part II Book I - Chapter I Sec. II § 9
Part II Book II Ch.I Sec. II § 15-18, 20, 22, 26-27		 729 - 730
738 - 739
746 - 756 (parts)
15 5/10 Kant, Critique “Second Analogy”
“Refutation of Idealism”
Book II Chapter II Sec. IX # III		 772 - 776
781 - 783
811 - 819
5/12 TEST 2
16 5/17 Paper due

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