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Discussion Post Instructions:

Address in your initial response, due Thursday night at midnight. Clearly define your terms and present arguments, not mere opinions or assertions, to defend your point of view. Utilize the text and point to specific examples and passages when appropriate.

Prompt:

Prompt 1: What does Hume's claim that "all of our ideas are copies of precedent impressions" mean for classical metaphysics? What would it mean for something like Descartes' project? Explain what makes this claim of Hume's so potentially radical.

Discussion Post Instructions:

Address in your initial response, due Thursday night at midnight. Clearly define your terms and present arguments, not mere opinions or assertions, to defend your point of view. Utilize the text and point to specific examples and passages when appropriate.

Prompt:

Prompt 1: What does Hume's claim that "all of our ideas are copies of precedent impressions" mean for classical metaphysics? What would it mean for something like Descartes' project? Explain what makes this claim of Hume's so potentially radical.

For this assignment, please write a 3-5 page paper. The paper should be double-spaced, written in Times New Roman 12-point font. It must be at least 3 double-spaced pages and no more than 5.

For this paper, you may draw from secondary sources, but the bulk of the paper should be focused on an analysis of the primary texts.

Prompt: 1) What (if anything) constitutes the 'essential point of contention' between rationalists and empiricists? What are the central commitments of each broad "camp?" Are there discrete and well-defined "camps" in the first place?

You don't need to answer every sub-question here; use these as a point of departure, and be original in the way you approach the question.

Draw upon the figures we have read and discussed so far in your answer, and demonstrate your knowledge of their texts where appropriate.