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PHIL 452 -- DESCARTES VS HUME -- FALL 2009
ASSIGNMENTS AND COURSE NOTES
Week 1-- Introduction to Descartes, First Meditation started:
- 8/31 -- Presentation of the course
- 9/2 -- Descartes -- Introduction
- 9/4 -- First Meditation
Week 2-- First Meditation, discussion:
- 9/7 -- Labor day
- 9/9 -- Descartes -- First Meditation, Objections and Replies
- Readings: Objections and Replies:
a) Seventh O and R: CSM II, 302-321.
b) Sixth O and R: CSM II, 281-2 (ninth difficulty), 293-96.
c) Third O and R: CSM II, 121.
d) Second O and R: CSM II, 92, 110-20 (Method).
- Text Analysis: Evil Genius Argument, from "Suppose then that I am dreaming" to "if I want to discover any certainty"
- 9/11 -- BGD 2 (Larmore)
Week 3 -- 9/14-18 -- Second Meditation:
Week 4 -- 9/21-24 -- Third Meditation:
Week 5 -- 9/28-10/2 -- Fourth Meditation:
Week 6 -- 10/5-9 -- Fifth Meditation:
Week 7 -- 10/12-16 -- Sixth Meditation:
- Monday: Presentation by Brad
- Wednesday: Sixth Meditation -- overview
- Friday: Sixth Meditation -- the problem of the distinction between the mind and the body + text analysis
- Readings, Study Questions and Handout
Week 8 -- 10/19-23 -- Finishing Descartes
- Monday: Presentation by James and Ellen -- The existence of matter
- Wednesday: The Cartesian Circle
- Friday: The Mind-Body relation
Week 9 -- 10/26-30 -- Hume, Introduction
Week 10 -- 11/2-6 -- Hume, Impressions and Ideas
Week 11 -- 11/9-13 -- Hume, Impressions and Ideas, finished
No class on 11/11
Week 12 -- 11/16-20 -- Hume, Space and Time
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