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Problems from Locke.
J.L. Mackie selects for critical discussion six related topics which are prominent in John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding: the distinction between primary and secondary qualities; representative theories of perception; substance, real essence, and nominal essence; abstract ideas,...
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Oxford University Press, USA,
1976.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY QUALITIES
- 1. Locke's distinction and the representative theory of perception
- 2. Arguments for the distinction
- 3. Arguments against the distinction
- 4. Aristotle's distinction and Molyneux's problem�common and special sensibles
- 5. Bennett's distinction
- 2. REPRESENTATIVE THEORIES OF PERCEPTION
- 1. Did Locke hold a representative theory?
- 2. Picture-original theory: (i) physically real intermediates
- 3. Picture-original theory: (ii) intentional objects
- 4. The veil-of-perception problem, and a Berkeleian argument5. Verification and constructive theories of meaning
- 6. Solution of the problem of meaning
- 7. The problem of justification
- 8. Is naivety indispensable?
- 9. Conclusions
- 3. SUBSTANCE AND ESSENCE
- 1. Berkeley's criticism of 'material substance'
- 2. Locke's account of substance
- 3. Substance and real essence
- 4. Material substance and reality
- 5. Real essence and nominal essence
- 6. Essences of non-substances
- 7. Locke's anticipation of Kripke
- 8. The possibility of explanatory science9. The essentiality of essences
- 10. Conclusion
- 4. ABSTRACT IDEAS AND UNIVERSALS
- 1. Locke's basic account of abstraction
- 2. Complex abstract ideas
- 3. Berkeley's theory of generalization
- 4. Abstract ideas of numbers
- 5. The indeterminacy of images
- 6. Realism about universals
- 7. Conceptualism and nominalism
- 8. The resemblance theory
- 9. Universals and the work of the mind
- 5. IDENTITY AND DIVERSITY
- 1. Locke's general theory of identity
- 2. Hume's account of identity
- 3. Essences of individuals4. The relativity of identity
- 5. Identity across kinds
- 6. PERSONAL IDENTITY
- 1. Locke and the unity of consciousness
- 2. Objections and difficulties
- 3. Conceptual analysis and evidence
- 4. Factual analysis and reinterpretations
- 7. EMPIRICISM AND INNATE NOTIONS
- 1. Realism versus empiricism
- 2. The case against innate notions
- 3. The established opinion that there are innate principles
- 4. Interpretations of the empiricist programme
- 5. Leibniz's reply to Locke
- 6. The possibility of innate knowledge
- 7. Actual innate knowledge8. Innateness and necessity
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
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