Phil 3171: History of Modern Philosophy

University of Minnesota, Morris
Professor Collier

Class Schedule:

Innate Ideas

Locke: Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book I, Ch. 2 (13-17)
Locke: Essay, Book I, Chs. 3-4 (*)
Leibniz: ‘Preface’ to New Essays (115-118)

Abstract Ideas

Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge, Introduction (130-138)

Primary/Secondary Qualities

Boyle: Of the Excellency and Grounds of the Corpuscular or Mechanical Philosophy (4-10)
Locke: Essay, Book II, Ch. 1 §1-8 (17-19); Book II, Ch. 1 §20-25 and Chs. 2-3 (21-24); Book II, Ch. 8 §7-26 (27-31)

Substances

Locke: Essay, Book II, Chs. 11-12 (33-36) and Ch. 23 (53-61)

Berkeley's Critique of Materialism (I)

Berkeley: First Dialogue between Hylas and Philonous (185-195)

Berkeley's Critique of Materialism (II)

Malebranche: Selections from The Search after Truth (*)
Berkeley: Second Dialogue (195-205)

Theodicy

Leibniz: Theodicy, “Summary of the Controversy Reduced to Formal Arguments” (*)
Voltaire: Candide or Optimism, Selections (*)

First Exam

Personal Identity

Locke: Essay, Book II, Ch. 27 §1-16, §19–20, and §22 (61-68)

Knowledge

Locke: Essay, “Introduction” §1-7 (11-13); Book IV, Chs. 1-2, Ch. 3 §1-18 (79-90), Ch. 4 (96-98) and Ch. 11 §1-10 (104-107)

Idealism

Berkeley: Third Dialogue (205-216)

Induction

Hume: Enquiry, Sections III, IV, V.1 (336-346) and XII.2 (391-392)

Causation

Locke: Essay, Book II, Ch. 21 §1-4 (42-43)
Hume: Enquiry, Sections II, VII (333-335, 351-359)

Liberty and Necessity

Locke: Essay, Book II, Ch. 21 §7-13 (43-45)
Hume: Enquiry, Section VIII (359-369)

Self and Immortality

Hume: Treatise, “Of Personal Identity” §1-4 (320-321)
Hume: “On the Immortality of the Soul” (*)

Suicide

Hume: “Of Suicide"

Second Exam

Social Contract I

Locke: Second Treatise of Government, Chs. 1-5 and Ch. 7 (§87-94)

Social Contract II

Locke: Second Treatise of Government, Ch. 8 (§95-104 and §112-122)
Hume: “Of the Original Contract” (*)

Social Contract III

Rousseau: Discourse on Inequality (*)

Toleration I

Locke: “A Letter Concerning Toleration” (390-410)

Toleration II

Proast: “The Argument of the Letter Concerning Toleration, Briefly consider'd and Answer'd” (*)
Bayle: A Philosophical Commentary on These Words of the Gospel, Luke 14.23, 'Compel Them to Come In, That My House May Be Full', Selections (*)

Liberty I

Mill: On Liberty, Chs. 2 (15-36, 41-43)

Liberty II

Mill: On Liberty, Chs. 1, 3, 4 (9-13, 53-71, 78-83)

Third Exam

Paper Presentations