Course description Course texts Course objectives Course requirements SYLLABUS LECTURE NOTES OVERHEADS READING QUESTIONS Answers ESSAY QUESTIONS		Philosophy 2202G (002) – Early Modern Philosophy
		Class participation Assigned questions (12%)
		Prior to each class students should do the assigned reading for that class, attempting to answer the reading questions for that reading as they do so. Reading questions generally have very simple and direct answers, that are found as you proceed through the reading. Questions are asked in the order in which their answers come up. To give you further assistance, the questions are often phrased in ways that echo the phraseology of the reading. This should flag the spot in the text that you need to focus on for the answer. If you find the answer to a later question before an earlier one, you have missed the answer to the earlier one. The intention of reading questions is to assist you in focusing your attention on some of the most important topics that come up over the course of the reading. Doing this can help you make sense of the reading. It is important to come to each class with a first impression of what is being said in the reading, which means you must have read it in advance and thought about the answers to the reading questions. Readings can sometimes be difficult to understand, and you will often come to class feeling you have not understood them properly. Having made your own, independent first effort to do so, however fruitless it may seem, is an important first step to coming to do so. Lectures, overheads, lecture notes, and answers to reading questions will then further flesh out your preliminary understandinig. At the start of each class one of the reading questions will be selected and students will be given 5 minutes to prepare and submit a handwritten answer. An acceptable answer must be generated in class without consulting books or computer. Students may not submit a previously prepared list of answers or a cut-out from such a list. Answers receive full credit except in the rare case where they are so far off the mark that they could have been written by someone who did not do the reading. The grade for reading questions is considered to be a class participation grade. To receive the grade you must be present in class at the time the question is asked. Submitting answers on behalf of another student misrepresents the other student as being present when they are absent, and is an academic offense.