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LECTURE
NOTES
(bracketed lectures are not on the syllabus
for this course but may be useful)
Bacon – Inductivism
Boyle –
Mechanism
Galileo
– Primary and Secondary Qualities
Hobbes
– Primary and Secondary Qualities
Hobbes
– Sense Experience and Reason
Hobbes
– Liberty and Necessity; Religious Belief
Descartes
– Rationalism
Meditations
1 – Cartesian Doubt
Meditations
2 – Mind and the cognitive faculties
Meditations
3a – Ideas and reality
Meditations
3b – Arguments for the existence of God
Meditations
4 – Error and Free Will
Meditations
5 – Intuitive and demonstrative knowledge
Meditations
6a – Existence of material things
Meditations
6b – Sensory Knowledge
[Principles I.1-23]
[Principles 1.24-50]
[Principles 1.51-76]
[Principles II.1-23]
[Principles II.33-40, 64;
IV.189-199; Discourse VI]
Cartesian
Science
Newton –
Newtonian Science
[Newton – Space and Time]
[Locke – Innate Ideas]
Locke
– Sensation
Locke
– Primary Qualities, Perception
Locke
– Substance
Locke
– Liberty & Necessity
Locke
– Identity
Locke
– Abstract Ideas, Real and Nominal Essence
Locke
– Intuitive, Demonstrative, & Sensitive Knowledge
Locke
– Existence of self, God, and material things
Locke
– Probability, Testimony & Miracles, Reason, Faith & Enthusiasm
Bayle –
Existence of material things
[Bayle – Space and Time]
[Berkeley – Abstract ideas]
[Berkeley – Existence of material things]
Berkeley – Three Dialogues 1a
Berkeley – Three Dialogues 1b
Berkeley
– Mind and World
Hume –
Inductive Scepticism
Hume –
Ideas, Association, and Causal Inference
Hume –
Natural Belief
Hume –
Probability and Necessary Connection
Hume – Liberty & Necessity
Hume –
Miracles and Testimony
Hume –
Existence of an external world
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