Syllabus: Texts

Main Texts (you need to purchase these)

• John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Hackett)
• John Locke, Second Treatise of Government (Hackett)
• George Berkeley, A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Hackett)
• David Hume, An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (Open Court)
• David Hume, An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals (Hackett)

(All books are available for purchase at The Literary Guillotine, 204 Locust St.; 457-1195. All of these books are also available online for free. You are required to attend every seminar and lecture with the above edition of the required text—all are cheap.)


Additional Texts and Readings
(available online on the eRes page: see paper copy of syllabus for eRes password)

• [on eRes] Jeremy Bentham, On the Principles of Morals and Legislation, Chs. 1 and 4
  
• [on eRes] Ian Hacking, Representing & Intervening and Historical Ontology (selections)
  
• [on eRes] David Hume, “Of the Standard of Taste” from Hume's Essays
  
• [on eRes] David Hume, “Of the Jealousy of Trade” from Hume's Essays
  
• [on eRes] David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature, Bk II
  
• [on eRes] William James, “A World of Pure Experience”
• [on eRes] Martin Jay, Songs of Experience, Ch. 1
  
• [on eRes] John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, Ch. 3
  
• [on eRes] W.V.O. Quine, “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” at
• [on eRes] Bas Van Fraassen, The Empirical Stance (selections)

Additional Reading Resources

(Searchable versions of all our texts are available online. You should use these but note that you must come to every lecture and seminar with the required edition of the text in hand.)

Locke’s Essay

Guide to Locke’s Essay

Locke’s Second Treatise

Berkeley texts

Hume texts

Hume’s Enquiry concerning Understanding

Hume’s Dialogues