Syllabus

Class Notes

Handouts

Readings

Links

Timeline

Readings

 

On the syllabus (chronologically):

David Rosenthal, "Philosophy and Its Teaching"

Galileo, "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany"

Aristotle on Perception

Readings on the Ontological Argument

Themes in the Objections and Replies (handouts)

Leibniz, from Theodicy

Berkeley's Principles, §86 - §156

Berkeley's Principles §34 - §84

 

Additional readings (alphabetically):

Descartes, Letter on the Pineal Gland

Stanley and Williamson, Knowing How

Derk Pereboom, "Mathematical Expressibility, Perceptual Relativity, and Secondary Qualities"

Frankfurt, Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility

A blind person, drawing

On the Molyneux question