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NOTE: The lecture notes only appear after a lecture has been given, typically within a day or two following.  If the date below is not blue with an underline, that means the file has not been created and linked to it yet.  Be advised that these notes are by no means a comprehensive or accurate record of what is covered in class, nor what I will expect you to know for examination and paper-writing purposes, since that must necessarily include comments made you, my students, and interactions that arise among all of us who attend, not to mention what you have read (only some of which we have time to go over in class).  In short, these are no substitute for class attendance or doing the reading!

Supplementary Packet
Logic Handout
List of Philosophers
History Handout
Handout#1
Handout#2
Handout#2 Supplement
Handout#3
Handout#4
Handout#5
Hume Handout (on DH's Critique of a Causal Relation)
Handout#6a
Handout#6b
Handouts 7&8 (on Kant)
Kant System Charts

Slide Shows:

Background to the Meditations
Meditation One (Three Stages of Doubt, the Method of Doubt, Radical Skeptical Conclusion)
Meditation Two (The Plan of the Meditations; Cogito; The Wax Argument)
Meditation Three (The Law of Intuition/Truth Criterion; Argument from Ideas for God's Existence)
Meditation Four (The Problem of Error and its Solution)
Meditation Six
Short Slide Show on Two Cartesian Arguments for the Existence of God
Powerpoint Slideshow on John Locke
Powerpoint Slideshow on Hume Unit
Powerpoint Slideshow on Hume's Critique of a Causal Relation and Positive, Empiricist Alternative

Tape Recordings:

Partial tape of Locke Lecture on Substance and Personal Identity
Partial tape of Hume Lecture on DH's general theory of ideas, what is new in it (compared to Locke), what it repairs that is faulty in Locke, and how we come to form the idea of a causal relationship
Tape of lecture on Kant's model of mind [in WMA format]
Tape of lecture on Kant's model of mind [in MP3 format]
Tape of partial lecture on Kant's Transcendental Aesthetic [in MP3 format]
Tape of lecture on Kant's Solution to Hume's Skepticism about Causal Relations and Cartesian Dream Skepticism about the existence of the external world

Lec 1
Lec 2
Lec 3
Lec 4
Lec 5
Lec 6
Lec 7
Lec 8
Lec 9
Lec 10
Lecs 11 & 12
Lecs 13 thru 15 (Hume)
Lec 16 (Hume's Critique of Induction)
Lec 17
Lec 18 & 19

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