: Locke, Essay concerning Humane Understanding,
4.3.9–14; Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1748), §§4,
5, and 7.
Tuesday, April 5
: Thomas Reid (1710–1796), An Inquiry into the HumanMind on the Principles of Common Sense (1764), ch. II, §§8–9
(pp. 112–14); ch. V, §3 (pp. 121–2); ch. VI, §12, from “Before we answer
this question” to “we can reach in the philosophy of minds” (p. 157); §24
(pp. 194–201). Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1785), Essay
II, ch. 6 (pp. 260–262); Essay VI, ch. 6, from “The second metaphysical
principle” to the end of the chapter (pp. 455–61).
Thursday, April 7
: Reid, Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind
(1788), Essay I, ch.’s 1–6 (pp. 512–27); Essay IV, ch.’s 2–3 (pp. 603–8).
Tuesday, April 12
: James Beattie (1735–1803), An Essay on the Natureand Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism
(1770), Part I, ch. 2, §5 (pp. 85–102); Part II, ch. 2, §3 beginning of the
section through “back to the second and third paragraphs of this section”
(pp. 261–75).
Thursday, April 14
: Dugald Stewart (1753–1828),
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, vol. I (1792), Part II,
ch. 1, §2 (pp. 96–108) and Notes C and D (pp. 476–9); Elements of thePhilosophy of the Human Mind, vol. II (1814), ch. 4, §1 (pp. 230–52).
Tuesday, April 19
: Stewart, “Dissertation: A General View of the Progress
of Metaphysical, Ethical, and Political Philosophy since the Revival of
Letters,” Part II (1821), §8, from “The bias of Mr. Hume’s mind to
scepticism” to “the first fruits of his metaphysical studies” (pp. 440–56);
The Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers (1828), Part III, ch. 2,
§1, through the end of n. 2 beginning on p. 27 and ending on p. 28
(pp. 12–28).
Thursday, April 21
: Thomas Brown (1778–1820), Inquiry into the Relationof Cause and Effect (in this form, 1818), Part I, §§1–2 (pp. 7–31), and
Notes A–C (pp. 387–93).
Tuesday, April 26
: Brown, Inquiry, Part I, beginning of §3 (through “when
the will had been immediately antecedent?”), end of §3 (from “The
theory of Power, then”), beginning of §4 (through “grave expositions of
philosophic truth”) (pp. 32–8, 53–70).
: Shepherd, Essays on the Perception of an ExternalUniverse and Other Subjects Connected with the Doctrine of Causation
(1827), Part I, ch. 2 and ch. 5 (pp. 39–75, 123–32).
Thursday, June 2
: Shepherd, Essays, Part II, essay 6 and 7 (pp. 296–313
and 314–324).