Phil 100C: The Empiricists
Spring, 2021
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Readings

Tuesday, March 30
: (no reading, first class).
Thursday, April 1
: Locke, Essay, Book I, ch. I, § 8; ch. II, §§1–5 and 15–16; ch. III, §§1–8; ch. IV, §§1–8 and 17–18; Book II, ch. I, §§1–6 and 23–5, and ch. II (all).
Tuesday, April 6
: Locke, Essay, Book II, ch.’s IV, VI, and VII (all); ch. VIII, §§7–26; ch. IX, §§1–4 and 11–15; ch. X, §§1–2; ch. XI, §§1–10.
Thursday, April 8
: Locke, Essay, Book II, ch. XII (all); ch. XIII, §§1–14 and 19; ch. XIV, §§1–6 and 17; ch. XVI, §§1–5; ch. XVII, §§1–3, 7–8, 12, and 15. ME #1 due.
Tuesday, April 13
: Locke, Essay, Book II, ch. XX, §§1–2 and 15–16; ch. XXI, §§1–14, 21–5, and 29; ch. XXII, §§1–4; ch. XXIII, §§1–12; ch. XXV (all); ch. XXVI, §§1–2; ch. XXVII, §§1–3, 9–10, and 26. ME #2 due.
Thursday, April 15
: Locke, Essay, Book II, ch. XXVIII, §§4–11; ch. XXIX, §§1–6; ch. XXXI (all); and ch. XXXIII, §§1–8 and §17. No ME due.
Tuesday, April 20
: Locke, Essay, Book III, ch. I, §§1–2; ch. II (all); ch. III, §§1–8, 11–12, 15–18; ch. IV, §§1–7; ch. VI, §§1–10, 28–30, 33, 39; ch. IX, §§15–16; ch. X, §§1–10, 14, 17–18, 34. ME#3 due.
Thursday, April 22
: Locke, Essay, Book IV, ch. I (all); ch. II, §§1–7, 14–15; ch. III, §§1–21; ch. IV, §§1–13; ch. VI, §§1–9; ch. VII, §§1–3. No ME due.
Monday, April 26
: First paper due.
Tuesday, April 27
: Locke, Essay, Book IV, ch.’s VIII–IX (all); ch. X, §§1–11; ch. XI, §§1–4, 8, 12–13; ch. XIV (all); ch. XVII, §§1–3, 5–13; ch. XVIII (all). ME #4 due.
Thursday, April 29
: Berkeley, Principles, Introduction (pp. 7–23). ME #5 due.
Tuesday, May 4
: Berkeley, Principles, §§1–84 (pp. 23–56). No ME due.
Thursday, May 6
: Berkeley, Principles, §§85–end (pp. 56–87). ME #6 due.
Tuesday, May 11
: Hume, Enquiry, §§1–4. No ME due.
Thursday, May 13
: Hume, Enquiry, §§5–7. ME #7 due.
Monday, May 17
: Second paper due.
Tuesday, May 18
: No class, due to the second day of Shavuot.
Wednesday, May 19
: Hume, Treatise, Book I, Part II. No ME due.
Thursday, May 20
: Hume, Treatise, Book I, Part IV, §§1–2. ME #8 due.
Tuesday, May 25
: Hume, Treatise, Book I, Part IV, §§3–5. ME #9 due.
Thursday, May 27
: Hume, Treatise, Part IV, §§6–7; Appendix, from “I had entertain’d some hopes” through “that will reconcile those contradictions.” ME #10 due.
Tuesday, June 1
: Hume, Dialogues, parts 2–8. Introductory paragraph and outline of final paper due. No ME due.
Thursday, June 3
: Hume, Dialogues, parts 9–12. No ME due.
Tuesday, June 8
: Final paper due.

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