Course description Course texts Course objectives Course requirements SYLLABUS LECTURE NOTES OVERHEADS READING QUESTIONS Answers ESSAY QUESTIONS		Philosophy 2202G (002) – Early Modern Philosophy
		Access to online materials
		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.