Calendar. The assignments below are approximate and tentative. The reading guide for each class will give full details of the assignment and may sometimes include material that is part of your assignment.
| 1/17 | introduction | ||
| 1/19 | Descartes | Discourse on Method, pts. 1-4 (pp. 1-22)—reading guide | |
| 1/21 | Discourse on Method, pts. 5-6 (pp. 22-44)—reading guide | ||
| 1/24 | Meditations, front matter and 1st meditation (pp. 47-63)—reading guide | ||
| 1/26 | Meditations, 2nd meditation (pp. 63-69)—reading guide | ||
| 1/28 | Meditations, 3rd meditation (pp. 69-81)—reading guide | ||
| 1/31 | Meditations, 4th meditation (pp. 81-87)—reading guide | ||
| 2/2 | Meditations, 5th meditation (pp. 87-92)—reading guide | ||
| 2/4 | Meditations, 6th meditation (pp. 92-103)—reading guide | ||
| 2/7 | Leibniz | Discourse on Metaphysics, §§1-13 (pp. 1-14)—reading guide | |
| 2/9 | Discourse on Metaphysics, §§14-22 (pp. 14-25)—reading guide | ||
| 2/11 | Discourse on Metaphysics, §§23-29 (pp. 25-31)—reading guide | ||
| 2/14 | Discourse on Metaphysics, §§30-37 (pp. 31-41)—reading guide | ||
| 2/16 | (ppr 1) | Pref. to New Essays on the Understanding, pp. 49-59—reading guide | |
| 2/18 | Pref. to New Essays on the Understanding, pp. 59-67—reading guide | ||
| 2/21 | Monadology, §§1-48 (pp. 68-75)—reading guide | ||
| 2/23 | Monadology, §§49-90 (pp. 75-81)—reading guide | ||
| 2/25 | exam 1 | ||
| 2/28 | Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, sels. from the epistle and bk. I. ch. i. §§1-4, 6-8, ch. ii. §§1-9, 12, 14f, 17-19, 21f, 24, ch. iv. §§1-6, §20, §§22-25 (pp. 1-14, 23-25, 29-32)—reading guide | |
| 3/2 | Essay, sels. from bk. II. ch. i §§1-10, 23-25, ch. ii §§1-3, ch. viii §§1-26, ch. ix §§8-9 (pp. 33-36, 39-41, 47-56, 58f)—reading guide | ||
| 3/4 | Essay, sels. from bk. II. ch. xi §§ 1, 4, 6, 8-11, 15, 17, ch. xii §§1-8, ch. xxii §§1-5, 9-11, ch. xxiii §§1-12, , ch. xxv §§1, 7-10 (pp. 63-68, 114-122, 129f, 131)—reading guide | ||
| spring break | |||
| 3/14 | Essay, sels. from bk. II, ch. 32, § 15, bk. III ch. ii. §§1f, 4f, 7f, ch. iii §§1-4, 6-13, 15-18, 20, ch. iv §§1-7, 12, 17, ch. v §§1-3, 7f, 12, 16 (pp. 169f, 178-191)—reading guide | ||
| 3/16 | Essay, sels. from bk. III ch. vi. §§1-9, 12, 14-20, 22f, 25-29, 32, 36, 51, ch. ix §§1-5, 11-13, 18 (pp. 192-203, 204-207)—reading guide | ||
| 3/18 | Essay, sels. from bk. IV ch. i. §§1-9, ch. ii §§1-7, 9, 14, ch. iii §§1-5, 7-18, 21-23, 26, 28, ch. iv §§1-8, ch. xii §§1, 7-11, ch. xv §§1-6, ch. xvi §1 (pp. 224-232, 233f, 235f, 239-244, 245f, 247f, 250-253, 292, 294-297, 302-306)—reading guide | ||
| 3/21 | Berkeley | A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, intro. (handout, pp. 1-15)—reading guide | |
| 3/23 | Principles, §§1-24 (handout, pp. 16-25)—reading guide | ||
| 3/25 | Principles, §§25-33, 135-145 (handout, pp. 25-31)—reading guide | ||
| 3/28 | Hume | An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, §§I-III (pp. 1-15)—reading guide | |
| 3/30 | Enquiry, §§IV (pp. 15-25)—reading guide | ||
| 4/1 | Enquiry, §§V-VI (pp. 25-39)—reading guide | ||
| 4/4 | Enquiry, §VII (pp. 39-53)—reading guide | ||
| 4/6 | (ppr 2) | Enquiry, §VIII (pp. 53-69)—reading guide | |
| 4/8 | Enquiry, §§IX, XII (pp. 69-72, 102-114)—reading guide | ||
| 4/11 | Kant | Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, pref., and Letter to Herz (2/21/1772) (pp. 1-8, 117-122)—reading guide | |
| 4/13 | Prolegomena, preamble §§1-5 (pp. 9-22)—reading guide | ||
| 4/15 | (Knt ex 1) | Prolegomena, 1st part §§6-13 and rems. I-III (pp. 23-34)—reading guide | |
| 4/18 | Prolegomena, 2nd part §§14-26 (pp. 34-49)—reading guide | ||
| 4/20 | (Knt ex 2) | Prolegomena, 2nd part §§27-39 (pp. 49-63)—reading guide | |
| 4/22 | Prolegomena, 3rd part §§40-49 (pp. 64-73)—reading guide | ||
| 4/25 | (Knt ex 3) | Prolegomena, 3rd part §§50-56 (pp. 73-84)—reading guide | |
| 4/27 | Prolegomena, concl. §§57-60 and solution (pp. 85-104)—reading guide | ||
| 4/29 | Prolegomena, appendix (pp. 105-116)—reading guide | ||
| exam week | |||
| 5/6 | Fri. 9 a.m.: exam 2 | ||