• A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. George Berkeley.
• Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding. David Hume.
• Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Immanuel Kant.
• Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals. Immanuel Kant.
• Utilitarianism. John Stuart Mill.
• The Philosopher's Dictionary. (2nd ed.) Robert Martin.

Requirements:
4 of 6 pop-quizzes, a mid-term exam, and a final exam.

Grade:
Of the 100 (possible) points, 20 are from the pop-quizzes, 40 are from the mid-term, 40 are from the final exam.
Outline:

A. Introduction.
B. Berkeley.

• Berkeley's Idealism and critique of Materialism1.
• Critique of Abstractionism.
• Berkeley's Idealism and critique of Materialism2.
• Replies to anticipated objections.

• On impressions.
• On experience.
• Hume's Problem of Induction.
• On the belief that there are bodies
• On the self.

• The synthetic-a priori.
• Kantian Metaphysics.
• Kantian Ethics.

• Millian Ethics.
• Mill's Phenomenalism.

F. Conclusions. Getting outside the circle of one's own ideas.

Berkeley's "Whitehall." Berkeley lived here, near Newport, RI, from 1728 to 1731. I served as "Philosopher in Residence at Whitehall" during the summers of 1982 and 1984.

George Berkeley
 

David Hume
 

Immanuel Kant
 

John Stuart Mill