Presentations - Quarter 2: History of Early Modern Philosophy
<Week 1>
Topic: Descartes (Mind Body Problem & Innate Ideas)*
Presenters: Claudius & Noelle
Texts:
o Chapter 3 (From Scruton)
o Meditations II and VI and from Rely to Objections II (From Philo of Mind)
o From “Comments on a Certain Boradsheet”
<Week 2>
Topic: The Cartesian Revolution (Mental Causation)
Presenters: Emily & Anne
Texts:
o Chapter 4, (from Scruton)
o Pascal’s Wager (from Basic Problems)
o Malebranche from “The Union of Soul and Body” (From Philo of Mind)
<Spinoza Chapter5>
<Week 4>
Topic: Leibniz (Mental Causation)
Presenters: Ellim & Linda
Texts:
o Chapter 6 (From Scruton)
o The Nature of Communication of Substances (From Philo of Mind)
o Selections from New Essays
<Week 5>
Topic: Locke & Berkeley (Mind Body Problem & Innate Ideas)*
Presenters: Maria & Kyler
Texts:
o Chapter 7 (From Scruton)
o Berkeley, From The Principles (From Philo of Mind)
o Locke, No innate principles in the Mind (From Philof Mind)
<The Idea of Moral Science, Chapter 8>
<Week 7>
Topic: Hume (Associationism/Connectionism)
Presenters: Cindy & Joanne
Texts:
o Chapter 9 (From Scruton)
o Hobbes, Train of Imaginations (From Philosophy of Mind)
o Locke, Of the association of Ideas (From Philo of Mind)
o Hume, Of the Connection of Associations of Ideas (From Philo of Mind)
--MW
<Week 1>
Topic: Descartes (Mind Body Problem & Innate Ideas)*
Presenters: Claudius & Noelle
Texts:
o Chapter 3 (From Scruton)
o Meditations II and VI and from Rely to Objections II (From Philo of Mind)
o From “Comments on a Certain Boradsheet”
<Week 2>
Topic: The Cartesian Revolution (Mental Causation)
Presenters: Emily & Anne
Texts:
o Chapter 4, (from Scruton)
o Pascal’s Wager (from Basic Problems)
o Malebranche from “The Union of Soul and Body” (From Philo of Mind)
<Spinoza Chapter5>
<Week 4>
Topic: Leibniz (Mental Causation)
Presenters: Ellim & Linda
Texts:
o Chapter 6 (From Scruton)
o The Nature of Communication of Substances (From Philo of Mind)
o Selections from New Essays
<Week 5>
Topic: Locke & Berkeley (Mind Body Problem & Innate Ideas)*
Presenters: Maria & Kyler
Texts:
o Chapter 7 (From Scruton)
o Berkeley, From The Principles (From Philo of Mind)
o Locke, No innate principles in the Mind (From Philof Mind)
<The Idea of Moral Science, Chapter 8>
<Week 7>
Topic: Hume (Associationism/Connectionism)
Presenters: Cindy & Joanne
Texts:
o Chapter 9 (From Scruton)
o Hobbes, Train of Imaginations (From Philosophy of Mind)
o Locke, Of the association of Ideas (From Philo of Mind)
o Hume, Of the Connection of Associations of Ideas (From Philo of Mind)
--MW
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