Required reading list of texts which students should read before arrival:

J. Locke, An essay concerning human understanding, bk IV, chaps. 9–10, 17–19

[any edn acceptable; also available online]

G. Berkeley, Three dialogues between Hylas and Philonous [any edn acceptable; also available online]

D. Hume, Dialogues concerning natural religion [any edn acceptable; also available online]

Recommended reading list of additional texts which students should read when in Oxford:

J.L. Mackie, The miracle of theism (1982) [esp. chaps. 4, 7, 8]

J. Bennett, ‘God and matter in Locke’, Early modern philosophy: mind, matter, and metaphysics, ed. C. Mercer and E. O’Neill (2005)

—— Locke, Berkeley, Hume: central themes (1971) [esp. chaps. 6–7]

D. O’Connor, Routledge philosophy guidebook to Hume on Religion (2001)

J. Hill, Faith in the age of reason: the Enlightenment from Galileo to Kant (2004]

K. Haakonssen, ed., The Cambridge history of eighteenth-century philosophy

(2006) [esp. sect. III]

P. Harrison, ‘Religion’ and the religions in the English Enlightenment (2002)

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