100 Readings Schedule (Penn Valley)

Epistemology: Knowledge from the Senses

 

For January 15:

  • Read “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato

 

For January 20:

  • Read “Meditations on First Philosophy (Meditation I)” by Rene Descartes (136-138)

 

For January 22:

  • Read from “The Problems of Philosophy” by Bertrand Russell (chapter 1 only, through page 13 of the linked file)

Epistemology: Induction and Science

For January 27:

  • Read from “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding” by David Hume, Section VII (206-213)

 

For January 29:

  • Read from “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding” by David Hume, Section V (199-205)
  • Read “Goodman’s New Riddle of Induction” (830-831)

 

For February 3:

  • Read “Science as Falsification” by Karl Popper

 

For February 5:

  • Read “The Revenge of Historicism” by Robert Klee

 

For February 10:

  • Read from “The Importance of Philosophical Scepticism” by Barry Stroud

 

For February 12:

  • Come prepared with questions for review (See Exam 1 Preview)

 

For February 17:

  • Exam #1

 

For February 19:

  • NO CLASS MEETING

 

For February 24:

  • Read “The Existence of God” by Thomas Aquinas (44-46)
  • Read “The Ontological Argument” by Anselm (42-43)

 

For February 26:

  • Read from “Natural Theology” by William Paley (47-51)

 

For March 3:

  • Read from “Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion” by David Hume, Read part II (60-67)

 

For March 5:

  • Read from “Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion” by David Hume, Read part X (80-85)
  • Paper assigned

 

For March 17:

  • Paper Due
  • Read “The Paradox of Identity” (828-829)

 

For March 19:

  • Read “The Case of Old Bentley Number One”

 

For March 24:

  • Read from “A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality” by John Perry (312-326)

 

For March 26:

  • Read “Where am I?” by Daniel Dennett (368-376)

 

For March 31:

  • Read “To Beam or Not to Beam?” by Richard Hanley

 

For April 2:

  • Prepare questions for review

 

For April 7:

  • Exam 2

 

For April 9:

  • no reading, material presented in class

 

For April 14:

  • Read “Dialog with Thrasymachus” from “The Republic” by Plato

 

For April 16:

  • Read from “Leviathan” by Thomas Hobbes

 

For April 21:

  • Read from “Second Treatise of Government” by John Locke

 

For April 23:

  • Read from “A Theory of Justice” by John Rawls (573-585)

 

For April 28:

  • Read from “Anarchy, State, and Utopia” by Robert Nozick (585-592)

 

For April 30:

  • Prepare questions for final exam review