Primary and Secondary Qualities
Title | Primary and Secondary Qualities PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence Nolan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 415 |
Release | 2011-04-07 |
Genre | 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.
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
Title | Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous PDF eBook |
Author | George Berkeley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Idealism |
ISBN |
Locke's Metaphysics
Title | Locke's Metaphysics PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Stuart |
Publisher | |
Pages | 541 |
Release | 2013-07-18 |
Genre | 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.
Locke's Image of the World
Title | Locke's Image of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Jacovides |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | 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.
Berkeley's Idealism
Title | Berkeley's Idealism PDF eBook |
Author | Georges Dicker |
Publisher | Oxford University Press on Demand |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2011-06-15 |
Genre | 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.
Thomas Reid and the Problem of Secondary Qualities
Title | Thomas Reid and the Problem of Secondary Qualities PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher A. Shrock |
Publisher | Edinburgh Studies in Scottish Philosophy |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2019-05-13 |
Genre | 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.
Ideas, Qualities and Corpuscles
Title | Ideas, Qualities and Corpuscles PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Alexander |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1985-05-09 |
Genre | 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.