Primary Sources
Berkeley
- A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge,ed. by J. Dancy, Oxford University Press, 1998
Descartes:
- Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings,ed. and trans. by J. Cottingham, R. Stoothoff and D. Murdoch, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988
Leibniz
- Philosophical Essays, G. W. Leibniz,R. Ariew and D. Garber (eds.) (Hackett, 1989)
Locke:
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke, P. Nidditch (ed.), OUP, Oxford, 1975
Hume:
- A Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume, ed. by L.A. Selby-Bigge, 2nd ed. with revised notes and text by P.H. Nidditch, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1978
Spinoza:
- Ethics: Demonstrated in Geometrical Order, in The Collected Works of Spinoza, vol.1, trans. and ed. by Edwin Curley, Princeton University Press, 1995; also in A Spinoza Reader, trans. and ed. by E. Curley, Princeton University Press, 1994
Secondary Literature
- Learning from Six Philosophers, vols. 1 and 2, J. Bennett, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2001
- The Rationalists, J. Cottingham, OUP, Oxford, 1988
- The Empiricists, R.S. Woodhouse, OUP, Oxford, 1988
Also check the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for the topics we discuss.
Tutorial Topics
Students choosing this paper will study one rationalist (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz) and one empiricist (Locke, Berkeley, Hume). Tutorial topics will be determined accordingly.
