| PHIL
33 -- Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment Spring 2009 |
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| Instructor:
Clinton Tolley office: HSS 8061 hours: Weds, 2:30-4:30pm phone: 2-2686 email: ctolley [at] ucsd.edu |
Teaching Assistants:
Nate Rockwood office: HSS 8089 hours: Mon, 2-4pm phone: --- email: film_guru_1 [at] hotmail.com Tim Jankowiak office: HSS 8088 hours: Mon, 11am-12pm phone: --- email: tjankowi [at] ucsd.edu |
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| Time:
Mon/Weds/Fri, 1:00pm-1:50pm Location: Cognitive Science Building (CSB) 001 [map] Discussion sections: Thurs, 9-9:50am, Philosophy dept seminar room (HSS 7077) Fri, 12-12:50pm, Pepper Canyon Hall 121 |
| Readings
in Modern Philosophy, Vol. 2: Locke, Berkeley, Hume and associated texts eds., Roger Ariew & Eric Watkins (Hackett, 2000) [info] Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics Immanuel Kant 2nd edition, J. Ellington, ed. (Hackett, 2002) [info] {available at Groundwork Books} |
| from the catalog: A survey of the major philosophers of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with a focus on the British empiricists—Locke, Berkeley, and Hume—and the critical philosophy of Kant. (Note: Phil 33 may be used to fulfill the Muir College breadth requirement.) |
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description of the requirements will be found at WebCT.} Weekly questionnaires Take-home open-book mid-term exam In-class closed-book final exam Attendance |
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can be found at WebCT.} Locke, An Essay concerning Human Understanding Berkeley, A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge Hume, An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding Kant, Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics |
| Routledge
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
entries (requires sign-in) Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
entries
For students who haven't taken a course in philosophy before, Simon Blackburn's Think (Oxford, 1999) is a short and very readable text that gives a nice introduction to what philosophy is and what philosophical thinking and writing is like. |