Course Materials

• Syllabus
• First Paper Topic
• Second Paper Topic
• 2006 Final Examination
• Introductory Lecture (PDF file)
• Lecture on the Rules (PDF file, 2006)
• Lecture on the Rules (PDF file, 2008)
• Lecture on The World and Treatise on Man (PDF file)
• Lectures on Discourse on the Method (PDF file)
• Lecture on Optics (PDF file)
• Lectures on the First Meditation (PDF file)
• Lectures on the Second Meditation (PDF file)
• Lectures on the Third Meditation (PDF file)
• Lectures on the Fourth Meditation (PDF file)
• Lectures on the Fifth Meditation (PDF file)
• Lectures on the Sixth Meditation (PDF file)
• Descartes's Model of Reflection and Refraction (.ppt file, PDF file)
• Descartes's Laws of Motion (.ppt file, PDF file)
• Lecture on Comments on a Certain Broadsheet (PDF file)

Links

• G. J. Mattey's Brief Account of Aristotelian Science
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry, "Descartes' Life and Works"
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry, "Descartes' Epistemology"
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry, "Descartes on the Emotions"