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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