Syllabus

Notes

Handouts

Assignments

Links

Handouts

 

David Rosenthal, "Philosophy and Its History"

Readings on the Ontological Argument

Themes in the Objections and Replies

Descartes, on the Pineal Gland

Montaigne on Cannibals

Mavrodes and Frankfurt on Perfections

I.B. Singer's Spinoza of Market Street

Leibniz, from Theodicy

Dennett on Personal Identity

Berkeley's Principles: §34-end; §34-§84; §86-end

Richard Taylor's Mind-Body Interaction Chart

Appendix to Kant Notes on Infinity

 

Reading Guides

Descartes

Spinoza (and Hobbes)

Leibniz

Locke

Berkeley

Hume

Kant