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NOTE: These lecture notes are for lectures that are often given over several class sessions in a normal-length semester course taught in-person.  Be advised that these notes are by no means a comprehensive or accurate record of what I will cover in the recorded mini-lectures in the Augmester version of the course, nor what I will expect you to know for examination purposes, since that must necessarily include things you will learn from the powerpoint slideshows, handouts, and my ampliative comments in the mini-lectures. In short, these notes are no substitute for your engagement with all the resources made available to you online, in lectures, in graded worksheets/exams, and through your own reading!

Supplementary Packet
Logic Handout
List of Philosophers
History Handout
Handout#1 (RD on meaning of "Objective vs. Formal Reality"'
Handout#2 (RD's Argument from Ideas for the Existence of God)
Handout#2 Supplement
Handout#3 (IGNORE THIS: WE ARE SKIPPING LEIBNIZ)
Handout#4 (IGNORE THIS: WE ARE SKIPPING LEIBNIZ)
Handout#5 (Locke on the Origin of All Ideas)
Hume Handout (on DH's Critique of a Causal Relation)
Handout#6a (Hume's Theory of Judgment)
Handout#6b (Hume on Induction)
Handouts 7&8 (A Summary of Kant's CPR and a Kantian Lexicon)
Table Showing Kant's Table of Judgments
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 (Proof that God Exists x2)
Meditation Four (The Problem of Error and its Solution)
Meditation Six
Comprehensive Slideshow on Locke's "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"
Comprehensive Slideshow on Hume's "Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding"

Tape Recordings:

Partial tape of Locke Lecture on Substance and Personal Identity (6/21/10)
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 (6/23/10)
Tape of Tuesday lecture on Kant's model of mind (6/29/10) [in WMA format]
Tape of Tuesday lecture on Kant's model of mind (6/29/10) [in MP3 format]
Tape of Wednesday partial lecture on Kant's Transcendental Aesthetic (6/30/10) [in MP3 format]
Tape of Thursday lecture on Kant's Solution to Hume's Skepticism about Causal Relations and Cartesian Dream Skepticism about the existence of the external world (7/1/10)

Lecture Notes:

Lec 1
Lec 2
Lec 3
Lec 4
Lec 5
Lec 6
Lec 7 (a more-comprehensive treatment of Med. Four is the Powerpoint Listed Above)
Lec 8
Lec 9 (Last Lecture on Descartes' Meditations)
Lec 10 (Introduction to Locke)
Lecs 11 & 12 (On Locke)
Lecs 13 thru 15 (Hume)
Lec 16 (Hume's Critique of Induction)
Lec 17 (Introduction to Kant)
Lec 18 & 19 (Last Lectures on Kant)

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