Today we continued our discussion of Descartes’s Meditations. Most of the lecture was devoted to looking at the primary argument of Meditation III, which is perhaps the Meditation whose reasoning is most difficult to follow.
Next Week’s Reading: Meditations V and VI (required);
Anselm’s Proslogion prologue to chapter 16; Gaunilo’s Reply; Anselm’s Reply to Gaunilo (optional)
Readings for Spinoza Lecture (after Descartes): Ethics, Part I (required);
Ethics, Part II (optional)
Office Hours: My office hours are from 2:30-4:00 p.m. this Friday in SS2115. I am also usually available by appointment at just about any other time of the week. However, you should expect only to be able to make appointments several days in advance. To make an appointment, contact me at phl210y@branemrys.org . (Don’t forget the ‘y’!) Feel free to ask me any questions by e-mail as well; as long as I’m given sufficient time to answer, I am very good at getting back to students who have questions about the reasoning of the texts we are discussing.