Course Schedule

3/29/11 Session 1 - Introduction; The Problem of the Criterion (Montaigne and Luther)

4/05/11 Session 2 - Early Modern Scientific Thinking: Bacon and Galileo

4/12/11 Session 3 - Doubt and the Cogito: Descartes I

4/19/11 Session 4 - Certainty, Dualism, Mechanism: Descartes II

4/26/11 Session 5 - Rationalism (Spinoza and Leibniz)

5/3/11 Session 6 - British Empiricism I (Locke)

5/10/11 Session 7 - British Empiricism II (Berkeley, Hume)

5/17/11 Session 8 - The Copernican Revolution: Kant I

5/24/11 Session 9 - Deontology: Kant II

5/31/11 Session 10 - Is Science a Religion? Nietzsche