Lecture Notes & Handouts

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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)

Slide Shows:

Meditation One (Background to the Meditations; Method of Doubt; the Plan of the Meditations)
Meditation Two (Cogito; The Wax Argument)
Meditation Three (Proof of God's existence and nature + kinds of ideas available to the human mind)
Meditation Four (The Problem of Error and its Solution)
Berkeley's Phenomenalism

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 16b (Berkeley's Phenomenalism)
Lec 17
Lec 18 & 19

 


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