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Dr. Michael C. LaBossiere

 
   

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"No fact can be real and no statement true unless it has a sufficient reason why it should be thus and not otherwise."
-Leibniz

"How do I know but that there is no earth, no heaven, no place and that nevertheless these seem to me to exist just exactly as I now see them?"
-Descartes

"When we do our utmost to conceive the existence of external bodies we are all the while only contemplating our own ideas."
-George Berkeley

"By what argument can it be proved that the perceptions of the mind must be caused by external objects and could not arise from the energy of the mind itself?"
-David Hume

"The end of the law is, not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom."
-John Locke

"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. "
-John Locke

"Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil."
-Mary Wollstonecraft

Online Lectures and Quizzes

This page provides information and material for Dr. Michael LaBossiere's Modern Philosophy course (PHH-3400) at
Florida A&M University.

From this page you can download the course pack which contains the text book, notes, and paper information as well as the practice tests and the software needed to take them.

Adobe Acrobat Files (PDF)
Course material is also available as Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files. You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print these file. To view a file online (assuming you have installed the Reader software), click on the link. If you are using a PC and you want to download the file instead of viewing it online, right-click on the link and select the option to "Save Target As..." If you are using a Mac and you want to download the file instead of viewing it online, hold down the control button and click on the link, then select the option to "Save As..." This material is the same as that availale in the course pack-there is no need to get both.

Modern Papers (PDF)
Paper Rules and Policies
Modern Paper
Comment & Checklist Sheet


Modern Notes & Readings (PDF)
Modern Readings
Detailed Outlines of Readings
Modern Notes

Modern Practice Tests (PDF)
Modern Practice Test #1
Modern Practice Test #2
Modern Practice Test #3
Modern Practice Test #4

 
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Last Updated 12/17/2009