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Readings

Mon., Jan. 3: (no reading, first class).

Wed., Jan. 5: selections from Aristotle (on substance and accident).


Mon., Jan. 10: selections from Aristotle and Porphyry (on the predicables and the categories). Metaphysics Exercise #1 due.

Wed., Jan. 12: selections from Plotinus, Porphyry, and John Philoponus (on substance and accident). Metaphysics exercise #2 due.


Mon., Jan. 17: selections from Avicenna and Thomas Aquinas (on substance and accident). Metaphysics exercise #3 due.

Wed., Jan. 19: Cervantes, Don Quixote, pt. 1, Prologue and ch. 1-5, 7-10, and 15-18. Metaphysics exercise #4 due.


Mon., Jan. 24: Cervantes, Don Quixote, pt. 1, ch. 20-22, 45-50 and 52.

Wed., Jan. 26: Descartes, Discourse on the Method, parts 1, 2 and beginning of 3 (pp. 20-32, through the paragraph ending ``which later, in their inconstancy, they judge to be bad'') and First Meditation (pp. 76-9).


Mon., Jan. 31: continued discussion of the First Meditation.

Wed., Feb. 2: Descartes, beginning of Second Meditation (pp. 80-83, through the paragraph ending ``in this restricted sense of the term it is simply thinking'').


Mon., Feb. 7: no class (break).

Wed., Feb. 9: Descartes, remainder of Second Meditation (pp. 83-6) (and first paper due).


Mon., Feb. 14: Descartes, Third Meditation (pp. 86-98). Metaphysics exercise #5 due.

Wed., Feb. 16: Descartes, Fourth and Sixth Meditations (pp. 98-105; 110-122).


Mon., Feb. 21: Leibniz, ``Monadology'' (pp. 213-25), and selections from Thomas Aquinas (on angels) (recommended).

Wed., Feb. 23: continued discussion of the ``Monadology.''


Mon., Feb. 28: Leibniz, ``A New System of Nature,'' first three paragraphs (pp. 138-9); ``A Specimen of Dynamics,'' first two paragraphs (pp. 118-19); from letters to Clarke: 2.12 (p. 324), 3.17 (p. 327), 4.42 (p. 331), 5.107-11 (pp. 343-4), along with Clarke's replies to each (in handout); ``Discourse on Metaphysics,'' (pp. 35-68), §§8-16, 19-20, 24, 26-8. Metaphysics exercise #6/7 due.

Wed., Mar. 2: selections from Locke, Essay concerning Human Understanding and Hume, Treatise of Human Nature (handout).


Mon., Mar. 7: Cervantes, Don Quixote, pt. 2, Prologue, ch. 2-3, 7-10, 22-3, 26, 30-35, 41, 54, 57-9. Metaphysics exercise #8 due.

Wed., Mar. 9: Cervantes, Don Quixote, pt. 2, 64-5, 71-2, 74.


Wed., Mar. 16: second paper due.


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Abe Stone 2005-09-28