Schedule of Readings and Assignments:
| WEEK |
Date
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Reading
|
Homework Assignment
|
Due dates |
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1
|
8/25 |
pp.3-16 |
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8/26 |
pp.16-31 |
SQ, p.15: 1,4,5
RQ, p.31: 1,3 |
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8/27 |
pp.35-49 |
SQ, p.18: 2,3
SQ, p.21: 2,3
RQ, 31: 4,5 |
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8/28 |
pp.49-61 |
SQ, p.42: 3,4
SQ, p.49: 1,2 |
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8/29 |
pp.65-81 |
SQ, p.52: 1,2
RQ, p.61: 2,3,7 |
Homework
8/26-8/29 |
|
2
|
9/2 |
pp.81-89 |
Outline Descartes' argument pp.78-79
or
Discuss purpose of
Allegory of the Cave |
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9/3 |
pp.95-113 |
SQ, p.71: 1,2,3
SQ, p.81: 2,6
SQ, p.83: 1
RQ, p.89: 4 |
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9/4 |
pp.115-125 |
SQ, p.100: 1,4
SQ, p.103: 1,2
SQ, p.113: 3 |
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9/5 |
pp.126-137 |
RQ, p.113: 1
SQ, p.120: 1
SQ, p.125: 2
Writing assignment #1 due;
Extra Credit due by email by 6pm
i) derivation of xïx=x;
ii) SQ, p.81:7 (diagonal argument) |
Writing assignment
#1 DUE
Extra Credit |
|
3
|
9/8 |
pp.167-176 |
SQ, p.125: 3
SQ, p.128: 1,2,3
RQ, p.137: 3,5 |
Homework
9/2-9/8 |
|
9/9 |
pp.176-189 |
Writing assignment #2:
Newton's Principia |
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|
9/10 |
pp.221-230 |
SQ, p.179: 1,2,3,4,5 |
Exam in class
Chapters 1-5 |
|
9/11 |
pp.230-245 |
Continue working on
Writing assignment #2 |
Writing assignment #2 DUE |
|
9/12 |
pp.249-261 |
RQ, p. 244: 2,3,4
Also, Which version of skepticism is most threatening
and why? |
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|
4
|
9/15 |
pp.261-271 |
1. Does the development of non-Euclidean geometry
challenge the viability of Kant's picture?
2. For each of the following thinkers (Descartes,
Plato, Hume, Kant, Poincare, CI Lewis) answer the following three questions:
What does it mean "to know"?
What can we know? How do we come to know? |
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|
9/16 |
pp.275-287 |
Free Day.... ! |
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9/17 |
pp.287-297 |
Study for exam |
Exam in class
Chapters 7,9,10 |
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9/18 |
pp.339-351 |
SQ, p.265: 3,4
RQ, p.271: 3
SQ, p.282: 1
SQ, p.287: 1,2 |
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9/19 |
pp.351-364 |
SQ, p.290: 3,4
RQ, p.297: 1,2
SQ, p.346: 1
begin Writing assignment #3 |
Homework
9/10-9/19 |
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9/26 |
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Writing assignment
#3 DUE |
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