Empiricism and the Kantian Synthesis

Explain Locke's distinction between primary and secondary qualities.

Reconstruct Berkeley's arguments for idealism from empiricist premises.

Explain Hume's fork and his regularity theory of causation.

Analyze Hume's problem of induction and its significance for scientific knowledge.

Explain Kant's distinction between analytic/synthetic and a priori/a posteriori judgments.

Describe Kant's 'Copernican Revolution' and the role of the categories of understanding.

Explain how Kant's transcendental idealism attempts to resolve the rationalism-empiricism debate.