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23SP_PL252A-IA
Intro and Descartes
Descartes Meditations 1-3, Text PDF
23SP_PL252A-IA-Modern Philosophy
Descartes Meditations 1-3, Text PDF
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◄ Emergence of the Modern Mind, PP Slides for Feb 3
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Modern Philosophy, syllabus
Reading Summary Question 1, Due at the start of class or by email on Feb 7
Writing Assignment 2, Fourth Meditation. Due Feb 14 in class or by email before class
Writing Assignment 3, Sixth Meditation. Due Feb 16 in class or by email before class
Reading Summary Question 4, Berkeley, due in class on April 4
Reading Summary Question 5, Hume, due in class on April 11
Reading Summary Question 7, Hume. Due in class on April 20
Reading Summary Question 8, Kant, due in class on April 25
Paper 1
Handout on writing a philosophy paper
writing tips
Paper 2: The Empiricists
Take Home Midterm
Take home midterm--s23
Course Handouts for PL 252
Introductory Lecture, Feb 1, PP slides
Emergence of the Modern Mind, PP Slides for Feb 3
Meditations 1 and 2, Feb 8, PP slides
Meditation 3, Feb 15, PP Slides
Handout: Descartes' Proof for the Existence of God, Third Meditation
Descartes, 4th and 5th Meditation, Feb 16, PP slides
Handout: The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God, Fifth Meditation
Meditation 6, Elisabeth and Descartes, and Critical Comments
Handout: Descartes and the Material World: It's Nature and Proof for its Existence
The Ethics, Book I: God, PP Slides
Handout: Aristotle's four causes, and Spinoza on God
The Ethics, Book II: Mind; and True Freedom, PP Slides
Handout: Spinoza's Mediate and Immediate Modes
Handout: Leibniz's Core Principles
Leibniz I: Methodology and Metaphysics
Leibniz II:Monads!!
Leibniz III: God and Critical Comments
Handout: Leibniz on God
Intro to Emiricism and Locke I
Locke, II
Locke III: Metaphysics and Critical Comments
Berkeley, Part I
Berkeley II, the Dialogues
Berkeley III
Hume I
Hume II
Hume, III, Sections IX and X
Hume, Argument from Design and Critical Comments
Introduction: Empiricism and Locke I
Handout: Locke, extra quotations
Locke, II
Locke, III
Locke on knowledge, handout
Locke's Proofs for God's Existence
Berkeley I, the Priniciples
Berkeley II, the Dialogues
Berkeley on Locke Handout
Berkeley III
Berkeley's Proofs for God's Existence
Hume I
Hume II
Hume Sections IX and X
Hume, Finale
Hume on the argument from design, handout
Hume On Personal Identity
Kant, I
Kant II
Handout: Transcendental deduction and the clock strikes three
Final exam, take home question
Meditations 1 and 2, Feb 8, PP slides ►