Early Modern Empiricism: Locke, Berkeley, and Hume

Reconstruct Locke's argument against innate ideas in 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding' Book I.

Explain Locke's distinction between primary and secondary qualities.

Analyze Berkeley's idealism and his arguments against material substance in 'Three Dialogues'.

Reconstruct Hume's fork: the distinction between relations of ideas and matters of fact.

Analyze Hume's problem of induction from 'Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding' Section IV.

Evaluate Hume's argument against the rational justification of causal inference.

Explain Hume's bundle theory of personal identity from 'Treatise' Book I.