A functioning, engaged brain.
	Allen Wood, Kant.  This book will help guide us through the mess that is Kant's writing.
	A good English translation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.  The book stores have ordered the Hackett Publishing Co. abridged edition.  That abridged edition will be fine for this course -- we won't need other parts of the Critique.  If you want a full copy of Kant's classic, you can order one from any number of sources.  Hackett has a relatively inexpensive one.  Wood has also collaborated on a recent translation, published by Oxford (??).  But even the quite old translation by Norman Kemp Smith is fine.  All translators have real problems trying to get Kant's thought right, and there are controversial philosophical issues surrounding all translations.
	Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy.  The stores have ordered an inexpensive Hackett version, translated by Cress, and bound with Discourse on Method.  If you like philosophy, get to know Hackett Publishing Co. as an inexpensive source for good versions of classic works.
	Have at least brief access to David Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.  We will read a small part of this classic near the beginning of the term.  The stores should have ordered a few copies of this classic.  If you don't have it, you might want to buy it to keep.
	There will be one or two handouts along the way that you will need to get and keep.