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Philosophy 2202G (002) – Early
Modern Philosophy |
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Electronic copy of the course readings from Bacon’s Great Instauration, New Organon, and De augmentis scientiarum is available here. For all other readings: use either the InteLex Past Masters database or
the ECCO database. To access these
databases: Go to: www.lib.uwo.ca If you are logging in from off campus, fill in the off campus access
information in the box on the left and hit the login button. Click on “Databases by Title” Either: Click on “I” and select “InteLex Past Masters” or: Click on “E” and select “Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)” Hobbes, Descartes, Berkeley, and Locke selections are best obtained
from InteLex Past Masters: Under “Select a title” pick: Hobbes: select “Hobbes: English Works.”
In the column on the left click on “The Elements of Law” for some
selections, and “Elements of Philosophy” for others, as directed on the
course syllabus. Descartes: select “Continental Rationalists, The” In the column on the left click on “The
Philosophical Writings of Descartes.
Volume 1” Berkeley: select “Berkeley: Works”
Three Dialogues between Hylas
and Philonous and A treatise
concerning the principles of human knowledge are in volume 2, De motu is in volume 4. Locke: select “Locke: Philosophical Works.” Select “An essay concerning human
understanding” from the column on the left. Bayle must be obtained from ECCO Please access this reading by going to lib.uwo.ca to look up the
“Eighteenth Century Collections Online” database. In the “Artemis” interface that comes up
select “document number” from the drop down screen (down arrow beside
“keyword”) and search for CW0114129616 (cut and paste this document
number). In the 1 / 1050 box change 1
to 169 and click go. You can use the
web page to download image numbers 169-171 or simply read the material
online. Use the link I have supplied
only to verify that you have found the correct material. If you are interested in reading Bayle’s Zeno article, which revives
Zeno’s motion paradoxes and uses them to attack Cartesian claims about the
intelligibility of extension, go to lib.uwo.ca to look up the “Eighteenth
Century Collections Online” database. In
the “Artemis” interface that comes up select “document number” from the drop
down screen (down arrow beside “keyword”) and search for CW0114129616 (cut
and paste this document number). In
the 1 / 1050 box change 1 to 861 and click go to access the start of the Zeno
article. You are interested mainly in
notes E and F, which start on 864. You can use the web page to download image
numbers 864-869 or simply read the material online. Lecture notes, overheads, and answered
reading questions are available on this material. Note on downloading and electronic searching It is possible to download titles from the InteLex and ECCO databases
to your own computer. However,
documents downloaded from ECCO cease to be searchable and documents
downloaded from InteLex cannot be searched using the advanced search engine
InteLex provides. |
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