Syllabus
Part 1: Methodological Certainty in Philosophy
(Week 1-Week 4)
Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
Part 2: Primacy of Sense Experience in All Knowledge
(Week 5-Week 8)
Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
Part 3: Symbolic Cognition and the Quest for Universal Science
(Week 9-Week 12)
Meditations on Knowledge, Truth and Ideas, On the Universal Characteristic, Monadology by G.W.
Leibniz
Recapitulation
(Week 13)
Annotation
The course will investigate the topics, problems, and doctrines of selected philosophers from the 17th and 18th centuries. Original writings of Descartes, Hume, and Leibniz will be studied