Problem: From your selected readings about the rationalists and the empiricists, answer the following questions:
1. What is "rationalism?" Who are the rationalists you read about in this selection?
2. What is "empiricism?" Who are the empiricists you read about in this selection?
3. What is the metaphysical view known as "dualism?" Do you believe you are a dualist? Why or why not?
4. What does Descartes set out to determine in the Meditations? What method does he employ in this work? How does he use this method?
5. What reason causes Descartes to claim that "sense experience is uncertain and insufficient for justifying knowledge?" Do you agree with this claim? Why or why not?
6. What does Descartes imagine that he uses to call into question the certainty of mathematical claims ? Do you think he is successful in this attempt?
7. What does cogito ergo summean? What is the significance of this in Descartes ' philosophy?
8. What is the mind-body problem What type of dualism does Descartes propose to address this problem ? Do you share his view? Why or why not?
9. What does Spinoza say about God? How does his view address the mind -body problem?
10. Explain Locke's distinction between primary and secondary qualities.