Lecture Notes

Week 1

Arguments

Francis Bacon on the Scientific Method

Galileo on Corpuscularianism

Week 2

Descartes - Meditations 1-2

Week 3

Locke on Ideas, Qualities, Perception, & Skepticism

Week 4

Berkeley on Idealism

Hume on Causation and Induction

Week 5

Hume on Skepticism

Kant on Noumena and Phenomena

Week 6

Reid on Direct Realism

Week 7

Hobbes on Identity

Locke on Identity

Reid against Locke

Week 8

Hume on Identity

Cartesian Dualism

Substance Monism

Week 9

Non-Interactionism

Determinism

Week 10

Libertarianism

Compatibilism

Week 11

The Ontological Argument

Objections to the Ontological Argument

Week 12

The Cosmological Argument

Objections to the Cosmological Argument

Week 13

The Teleological Argument

Objections to the Teleological Argument

Week 14

The Problem of Evil

Response to the Problem of Evil

Week 15

Against Miracles

Pascal's Wager

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