PHIL 360 17th Century Philosophy
Prof. Emily Carson
This course book package includes all required books for PHIL 360 for the Fall 2026 semester.
Buying the full package ensures you have every text you need from the start of the term.
This package includes the following titles
Meditations on First Philosophy (3rd ed.), René Descartes
Philosophical Essays, Leibniz
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke
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Descartes' foundational work of modern philosophy uses radical doubt to rebuild certain knowledge from the single certainty of thought, arriving at his famous cogito.
This collection gathers Leibniz's core philosophical writings, including his arguments on monads, theodicy, and the best of all possible worlds.
Locke's foundational work of empiricism argues that all human knowledge derives from experience, rejecting innate ideas in favor of the mind as a blank slate.