Locke : epistemology and metaphysics

Abstract

Part 1 Locke and the sceptical tradition: British sceptical realism - a fresh look at the British tradition, Stephen Buckle Locke as moral sceptic - innateness, diversity and the reply to stoicism, Daniel Carey. Part 2 Innatism and the theory of ideas: Locke and the innatists, S.J. Winchester Locke's mental atomism and the classification of ideas, M.A. Stewart is Locke an imagist?, David Soles. Part 3 Body and soul, will and desire: Locke on superaddition and mechanism, Matthew Stuart reconsidering the basis of Locke's primary-secondary quality distinction, Laura Keating Locke on the essence of the soul, G. Kemerling necessity and will in Locke's theory of action, E.J. Lowe Locke, suspension of desire and the remote good, Tito Magri. Part 4 Substance, essence and kinds: Locke versus Aristotle on natural kinds, Michael Ayers Locke on natural kinds as the workmanship of the understanding, Ruth Mattern Locke on substance ideas and the determination of kinds, a reply to Mattern, Martha Bolton Locke on real essence and internal constitution, Jean-Michel Vienne. Part 5 Identity and persons: Locke and relative identity, Vere Chappell Locke and 18th-century materialist conceptions of personal identity, Udo Thiel. Part 6 Language: do words signify ideas or things? - the scholastic sources of Locke's theory of language, E.J. Ashworth Locke on ideas, words and knowledge, David E. Soles. Part 7 Knowledge and opinion, reason and faith: reason and experience in Locke's epistemology, E.D. Cohen Locke on reason, probable reasoning and opinion, David E. Owen faith and reason in Locke's essay, David C. Snyder the assurance of faith, Nicholas Wolterstorff.