Logic and epistemology -- Philosophy, theology, logic, and the sciences -- Augustine on ancient philosophy -- Dialectica Monaccensis (anonymous, twelfth century) on the division of science -- Thomas Aquinas on the nature and scope of sacred doctrine -- The problem of universals -- Boethius against real universals -- John of Salisbury on the controversy over universals -- The Summa Lamberti on the properties of terms -- William Ockham on universals -- John Buridan on the predicables -- Illumination vs. abstraction, and scientific knowledge -- Augustine on divine ideas and illumination -- Thomas Aquinas on illumination vs. abstraction -- Thomas Aquinas on our knowledge of the first principles of demonstration -- Henry of Ghent on divine illumination -- Duns Scotus on divine illumination -- Knowledge and skepticism -- Augustine on the certainty of self-knowledge -- Thomas Aquinas on whether the intellect can be false -- Henry of Ghent on whether a human being can know anything -- Nicholas of Autrecourt on skepticism about substance and causality -- John Buridan on scientific knowledge -- Philosophy of nature, philosophy of the soul, metaphysics -- Hylomorphism, causality, natural philosophy -- Thomas Aquinas on the principles of nature -- Thomas Aquinas on the mixture of elements -- Giles of Rome on the errors of philosophers -- Selections from the condemnation of 1277 -- John Buridan on the impetus theory of projectile motion -- Human nature and the philosophy of the soul -- Augustine on the soul -- Averroës on the immateriality of the intellect -- Siger of Brabant on the intellective soul -- Thomas Aquinas on the nature and powers of the human soul -- John Buridan on the immateriality of the soul -- Metaphysics, existence and essence -- Avicenna on common nature -- Thomas Aquinas on being and essenc
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Descartes and the rise of modern philosophy -- Background to Descartes' meditations -- Descartes' innovations in how philosophy is written -- Lead-in to the first meditation -- The first meditation -- The second meditation -- The third meditation -- The fourth meditation -- The fifth meditation -- The sixth meditation -- A a summary of Cartesian commitments -- Topical highlights from Descartes' correspondence -- Questions about descartes -- Transition to the remainder of the book -- Spinoza -- Overview of Spinozas' philosophy and life -- Ethics part I : on the nature of the universe -- Ethics part II : on the nature an