Syllabus: contact info, texts, requirements, calendar
 
 

Texts in the bookstore:

Jonathan Westphal (ed.), Certainty (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1995).

René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998).

Jay Rosenberg, Three Conversations about Knowing (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2000).

Handouts:

Plato, Meno (Jowett, tr.) 96d-98b, and Theaetetus (Jowett, tr.), 200d-202d (2up, hlf).

Plato, Meno (Jowett, tr.) 79e-86c (2up, hlf).

Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Patrick, tr.) bk. 1, chs. 1-28, 33 (chs. 1-13: 2up, hlf; ch. 14: 2up, hlf; chs. 15-28, 33: 2up, hlf). [The rest is not assigned but is also available (chs. 29-32, 34: 2up, hlf; all of bk 1: 2up, hlf).]

John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, sels. (2up, hlf).

Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis (Halsted, tr.), intro., and The Value of Science (Halsted, tr.), sel. from ch. 10 (2up, hlf).