High-Priority Lectures and Other Teaching Materials by Dr. Garrett This page revised May 2, 2008 Some materials have been removed and will be restored as the Spring 2008 course proceeds. Contents (Major Headings) Before Descartes Descartes - Locke Hume - Kant Hegel - Marx Dewey - Sartre 1. The Philosophical Background to Modern Philosophy 2. The Social Role of the Philosophy Network in the Scientific Revolution     (A Sociological Description by Randall Collins) 3. The Scientific Background of the Rise of Modern Philosophy       4. Cartesian Glossary (Definitions of Key Cartesian Terms) 5. Lakoff and Johnson on Metaphorical Reasoning in Descartes (new 2/1/08) 6. Descartes--A (Hasty?) Balance Sheet (new 2/15/08) 7. The Evil Genius' Pervasive Presence in Descartes' Meditations (restored 3/08) 8. Descartes' First Proof for the Existence of God (restored 3/08) 9. Mysteries of the Will and Assent in Descartes (New: 2-18-04) 10. The Mind-Body Problem from Descartes to Hume       11. Background to Locke 12. Lockean Glossary (Revised 2-23-04) 13. Locke on the Will and Freedom (Notes on Essay II.21, "Of Power") 14. Locke on Substance (Lecture Notes) 15. Locke on Reason and Faith (part) (Restored: 3-20-08) 16. Lecture Notes on Hume's Enquiry       17. Very Basic Notes on Kant (short) 18. Kant Glossary (alphabetized, 4-2-08) 19. Philosophical Method (3-19-04) 20. Kant as a "Problematic" Thinker (3-19-04) 21. Kant's Prolegomena: a 44-Point Summary (completely restored) 22. (Fictional) Dialogue with Kant about His Ethical Theory (basic material) 23. Letter from Kant to Hume about Ethics (a Pedagogical Fiction)       24. Hegel: An Overview (Fully restored: 4-9-08) 24a. Notes on Hegel's Intro to the Philosophy of History (Restored 5-2-08)       25. Lecture Notes on Marx 26. Marxist Economics 101 (Rev. and added 4-30-04) 27. Selected Lecture Notes on Dewey 28. Background to Sartre's "Existentialism . . . Humanism"