Calendar. The assignments below are approximate and tentative. Often a reading-guide handout will specify the details of an assignment, and it may include passages that are part of your assignment.
| 8/27 | introduction | |
| 8/30 | Plato | Republic selection (Certainty, sel. 1, pp. 1-7) |
| 9/1 | Meno and Theaetetus sels. (handout: 2up, hlf) | |
| 9/3 | (writing 1) | Meno sel. (handout: 2up, hlf) |
| 9/6 | Sextus Empiricus | Outlines of Pyrrhonism, bk. 1, chs. 1-13 (handout: 2up, hlf)—reading guide |
| 9/8 | Outlines of Pyrrhonism, bk. 1, ch. 14 (handout: 2up, hlf)—rdng gd | |
| 9/10 | (writing 2) | Outlines of Pyrrhonism, bk. 1, chs. 15-28, 33 (handout: 2up, hlf)—rdng gd |
| 9/13 | René Descartes | Discourse on Method, pts. 1-2 (pp. 1-13) |
| 9/15 | Discourse, pt. 4, and Meditations, 1 and 2 (pp. 18-22, 59-69) | |
| 9/17 | Discourse, pt. 6, and Meditations, 6, end (pp. 33-44, 101-103) | |
| 9/20 | John Locke
(paper 1)
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, sels. (handout: 2up, hlf) |
| 9/22 | G. W. Leibniz, David Hume, and Thomas Reid |
idealism vs. realism: three positions (Certainty, sels. 5-7, pp. 28-44) |
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| 9/27 | Henri Poincaré | sels. from Science and Hypothesis and The Value of Science (handout: 2up, hlf) |
| 9/29 | Edmund Husserl | Cartesian Meditations, 1 (Certainty, sel. 8, pp. 45-57) |
| 10/1 | Hans Reichenbach | The Rise of Scientific Philosophy, ch. 3 (Certainty, sel. 11, pp. 104-120 |
| 10/4 | Jay Rosenberg | Three Conversations about Knowing, 1 (pp. 1-17) |
| 10/6 | (paper 2) | Three Conversations, 2 (pp. 18-36) |
| 10/8 | Three Conversations, 3 (pp. 37-55) | |
| 10/11 | O. K. Bouwsma | “Descartes’ Evil Genius” (Certainty, sel. 13, pp. 126-136) |
| 10/13 | Raymond Smullyan | “Dream or Reality” (Certainty, sel. 14, pp. 137-151) |