OhioLINK History of Philosophy Website

Continental Rationalism
Fall 1996

This is the homepage for the Fall 1996 class offering of our course on Continental Rationalism, taught by Professor Brian Rosmaita. Follow the hyperlinks on this page to a course syllabus, writing exercises, and other material of interest developed for this class.

• Course Syllabus
• Writing-Intensive Course Guidelines
• Writing Assignments
  1. Micro #1: Bibliographic Research
  2. Micro #2: Formulating Questions and Articulating Issues
  3. Micro #3: Relation to Other Texts, Mode of Presentation
  4. Micro #4: Topic Formation
  5. Macro #1: The Regulae vs. The Discourse
  6. Micro #5: Articulation of Issues
  7. Micro #6: Articulation of Issues, Part 2
  8. Micro #7: Locating and Analyzing Arguments
  9. Micro #8: Writing Thesis Paragraphs
  10. Micro #9: Topic Formation
  11. Macro #2: Descartes
  12. Micro #10: Locating and Analyzing Arguments, Modes of Presentation
  13. Micro #11: Questions About Texts
  14. Micro #12: Bibliographic Exercises: Independent Library Research
  15. Micro #13: Questions About Texts
  16. Micro #14: Questions About Texts: Relation to Other Texts
  17. Micro #15: Computer-Assisted Composition
  18. Micro #16: Developing a Paper Topic
  19. Macro #3: The Major Project
  20. Micro #17: Overall Points

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