Phil 5120 / 6120 - Modern & Recent Philosophy

Instructor:  Lex Newman

This course will be on early modern empiricism, focusing on the so-called British empiricists — Locke, Berkeley, Hume. A detailed syllabus of the course will be forthcoming, namely at the start of the semester. In the mean time, I want to make a comment about the four course texts that you should be buying. You may of course buy these texts from the Bookstore. For those who prefer to shop for the best price, you will find the titles along with Amazon links below.

Also, for any of you who plan to go on to do more serious work on either Locke or Hume, I'd suggest that you purchase not the Hackett Publishing versions of the texts that I've had the bookstore order, but instead the scholarly versions by Oxford University Press. So, for these two texts, you'll find below links to both the Hackett and the Oxford versions, leaving it to you to decide which to purchase.

• The Locke text:
  • An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, by John Locke
  • Hackett edition (as has been ordered by the bookstore), edited by Ken Winkler
    • ISBN:  087220216X
    • Price from Amazon
  • Scholarly edition published by Oxford and edited by Peter Nidditch
    • ISBN:  0198245955
    • Price from Amazon.
  
  
• The Berkeley text:
  • A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley
  • Hackett edition (as has been ordered by the bookstore), edited by Ken Winkler
    • ISBN:  0915145391
    • Price from Amazon
  
  
• The Hume text:
  • An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume
  • Hackett edition (as has been ordered by the bookstore), edited by Eric Steinberg
    • ISBN:  0872202291
    • Price from Amazon
  • Scholarly edition published by Oxford and edited by Tom Beauchamp
    • ISBN:  0198752482
    • Price from Amazon.
  
  
• The fourth required text:
  • The Empiricists: Critical Essays on Locke, Berkeley, and Hume, ed. Margaret Atherton
  • ISBN:  0847689131
  • Price from Amazon