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Course description |
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Philosophy 2202G (002) – Early Modern
Philosophy |
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Bibliography Assignment Due: January 28 |
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Prepare
a short bibliography listing 15-20 book chapters or articles on one of the
four “big name” figures studied in this class (Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume). Titles should
focus on topics that you will become familiar with through doing course
readings. For Descartes, this means
anything having to do with human nature (both human physical and human mental
constitution, including mind/body dualism), knowledge and cognitive faculties
including will, deception, and error, arguments for the existence of God or
of an external world, the fundamental features of the natural world including
primary and secondary qualities, matter, laws of nature, metaphysics and
philosophy of science. For Locke it
means all of these things as well as perception and the Molyneux question,
liberty and necessity, personal identity, abstraction, real and nominal
essences, foundations of knowledge in intuition,
demonstration, and sensation, foundations of specifically religious knowledge
in reason, faith and enthusiasm. For Restrict
your bibliography to work done over the last 5 years. Do not
include book reviews, textbooks, encyclopedia articles, or editions of the
figure’s works. Instead focus on
peer-reviewed academic work as published in leading philosophy journals or in
monographs or anthologies published by leading academic printers. The
principal resource for your research should be the Philosopher’s Index. To
access it, go to www.lib.uwo.ca, click
on “Databases by title” (midscreen), and select P,
and then Philosopher’s Index. Fill in
the name of the philosopher you propose to investigate in the subject heading
box, set the date range to after 2004, check contribution, journal article
and monograph only as document types (do not include book reviews in your
search) and be sure to hit the language boxes for only those languages that
you are able to read. Hit “Search” Have
fun. Read abstracts if you are
interested in titles. Select what
interests you and leave the rest out. Other
resources: go back to the library main page and select “Philosophy” under
“Browse by program.” Then click on
databases. Shelf
reading is good. Go to the library and
look at what is on the shelves in the section where most of the books on the
figure you are interested in are located.
Pull down some of the newer books and page through. Look at their bibiliographies. You
should list complete bibliographical data for each entry you list. If you use a service or program to generate
a bibliography for you, verify that it is including all the required
information. This includes author’s
full name (do not omit last names),
title of the book or article (titles of books should be italics, titles of
articles in quotation marks), and publication data. A
web page address is not an acceptable bibliographical entry. For a book, identify publisher, date of
publication, and place of publication.
Book titles should be underlined or italicized. For an article in a journal identify the
name of the journal, issue number, year of issue, and starting and ending
page numbers of the article. For an article
in an anthology it means full names of the editors of the anthology, title of
the anthology, place, publisher, and year of publication, and starting and
finishing page numbers for the article.
Article numbers should be enclosed in quotation marks. Examples: Book: Falkenstein, Lorne. Kant’s Intuitionism: A Commentary on the
Transcendental Aesthetic. Journal
article: Falkenstein, Lorne. “Hume on ‘Genuine,’ ‘True,’ and ‘Rational’
Religion.” Eighteenth Century Thought 4 (2009): 171-201. Article
in a collection: Falkenstein, Lorne.
“Classical Empiricism.” In
Adrian Bardon and Heather Dyke (ed),
A Companion to the Philosophy of Time,
( Please
submit the assignment by e-mail to lfalkens@uwo.ca Please
do not submit hard copy. |
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