The Early Moderns:
Francis Bacon
Rene DesCartes
Baruch Spinoza
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
John Locke
George Berkeley
David Hume
Immanuel Kant
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Introduction
Background to Early Modern Philosophy
4-11, Bacon & Galileo
Rene Descartes
12-21 Discourse on Method (ERes) I'm sick today; here's your assignment.
22-34 Meditations I & II
34-41 Meditation III
41-55 Meditations IV, V, & VI
Baruch Spinoza
129-149 Ethics, Part I Helpful source:
Ethics, Part I cont. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
149-172 Ethics, Part II article on Baruch Spinoza
172-180 Ethics, Part V
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
185-207 Discourse on Metaphysics
235-244 The Monadology
John Locke
270-276 Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Introduction
276-282 Essay, Bk 2, Chs. 1&2
Philosophical Writing
Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper
George Berkeley
413-433 Dialogues, Part 1
David Hume
491-506 Inquiry, Section 1-4
Hume on Identity
Paley's Watchmaker and Hume on Natural Religion