• WEEK 8 (16–20 Oct): The Structure of Knowledge

Required Readings

• René Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy, Second, Third, and Fourth Meditations (pp.3–22)
• Jim Pryor: Guidelines on Reading Philosophy
• Course Notes for Week 8

Writing Assignment

This week's writing assignment should be submitted through the course's blackboard page. To submit it, you should go to the Discussion Board section, then open this week's forum, which is called "Week 8 Assignment". You should begin a new thread in that forum and post your answer to the question there.

Your assignment this week is to choose one of the meditations assigned as readings for this week (Meditation Two, Three, or Four), and reconstruct the chain of reasoning by which Descartes expands his knowledge. For more instructions about how to do this, see this week's course notes.

Your answer should be no more than 250 words long. It is due on Friday, October 20th at 11:59pm.