Author : Lawrence Nolan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 22,52 MB
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199556156
Fourteen new essays trace the historical development of the distinction between primary and secondary qualities, a key topic in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of perception. The volume starts with the ancient Greeks, discusses virtually all major figures of the early modern era, and reflects on the place of the topic in philosophy today.
Author : George Berkeley
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,35 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Idealism
ISBN :
Author : Michael Jacovides
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 17,35 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198789866
Michael Jacovides provides an engaging account of how the scientific revolution influenced one of the foremost figures of early modern philosophy, John Locke. By placing Locke's thought in its scientific, religious, and anti-scholastic contexts, Jacovides explains not only what Locke believes but also why he believes it.
Author : Georges Dicker
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 18,35 MB
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0195381467
Using the tools of contemporary analytic philosophy, Georges Dicker here examines both the destructive and the constructive sides of Berkeley's thought, against the background of the mainstream views that he rejected.
Author : Matthew Stuart
Publisher :
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 29,96 MB
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199645116
Matthew Stuart offers a fresh interpretation of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, arguing for the work's profound contribution to metaphysics. He presents new readings of Locke's accounts of personal identity and the primary/secondary quality distinction, and explores Locke's case against materialism and his philosophy of action.
Author : Peter Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 1985-05-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521267076
This study presents a substantial and often radical reinterpretation of some of the central themes of Locke's thought. Professor Alexander concentrates on the Essay Concerning Human Understanding and aims to restore that to its proper historical context. In Part I he gives a clear exposition of some of the scientific theories of Robert Boyle, which, he argues, heavily influenced Locke in employing similar concepts and terminology. Against this background, he goes on in Part II to provide an account of Locke's views on the external world and our knowledge of it. He shows those views to be more consistent and plausible than is generally allowed, demonstrating how they make sense and enable scientific explanations of nature. In examining the views of Locke and Boyle together, the book throws light both on the development of philosophy and the beginnings of modern science, and in particular it makes a considerable and original contribution to our understanding of Locke's philosophy.
Author : Christopher A. Shrock
Publisher : Edinburgh Studies in Scottish Philosophy
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 2019-05-13
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : 9781474452779
With a new reading of Thomas Reid on primary and secondary qualities, Christopher A. Shrock illuminates the Common Sense theory of perception. Shrock follow's Reid's lead in defending common sense philosophy against the problem of secondary qualities, which claims that our perceptions are only experiences in our brains, not of the world.
Author : John Locke
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,93 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN :
First published in 1690, John Locke (1632-1704) provides an account of how we acquire everyday, mathematical, natural scientific, religious and ethical knowledge. Rejecting the theory that some knowledge is innate, he argues that it derives from sense perceptions and experience, as analysed and developed by reason. While defending these central claims with vigorous common sense, he offers many incidental reflections on space and time, meaning, free will and personal identity.
Author : E.J. Lowe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134455747
John Locke (1632-1704) was one of the towering philosophers of the Enlightenment and arguably the greatest English philosopher. Many assumptions we now take for granted, about liberty, knowledge and government, come from Locke and his most influential works, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Two Treatises of Government. In this superb introduction to Locke's thought, E.J. Lowe covers all the major aspects of his philosophy. Whilst sensitive to the seventeenth-century background to Locke's thought, he concentrates on introducing and assessing Locke in a contemporary philosophical setting, explaining why he is so important today. Beginning with a helpful overview of Locke's life and times, he explains how Locke challenged the idea that the human mind and knowledge of the external world rested on innate principles, laying the philosophical foundations of empiricism later taken up by Berkeley and Hume. Subsequent chapters introduce and critically assess topics fundamental to understanding Locke: his theories of substance and identity, language and meaning, philosophy of action and free will, and political freedom and toleration. In doing so, he explains some of the more complex yet pivotal aspects of Locke's thought, such as his theory that language rests on ideas and how Locke's theory of personal identity paved the way for modern empirical psychology. A final chapter assesses Locke's legacy, and the book includes a helpful chronology of Locke's life and glossary of unfamiliar terms.
Author : Samuel Guttenplan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 18,52 MB
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1119094682
A key introductory philosophy textbook, making use of an innovative, interactive technique for reading philosophical texts Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts with a Method for Beginners, Second Edition, provides a unique approach to reading philosophy, requiring students to engage with material as they read. It contains carefully selected texts, commentaries on those texts, and questions for the reader to think about as she reads. It serves as starting points for both classroom discussion and independent study. The texts cover a wide range of topics drawn from diverse areas of philosophical investigation, ranging over ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, and political philosophy. This edition has been updated and expanded. New chapters discuss the moral significance of friendship and love, the subjective nature of consciousness and the ways that science might explore conscious experience. And there are new texts and commentary in chapters on doubt, self and moral dilemmas. Guides readers through the experience of active, engaged philosophical reading Presents significant texts, contextualized for newcomers to philosophy Includes writings by philosophers from antiquity to the late 20th-century Contains commentary that provides the context and background necessary for discussion and argument Prompts readers to think through specific questions and to reach their own conclusions This book is an ideal resource for beginning students in philosophy, as well as for anyone wishing to engage with the subject on their own.
