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Locke's metaphysics

Author: Matthew Stuart
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2013.
Edition/Format:  Print book : English : First edition
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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.
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Named Person: John Locke; John Locke; John Locke; John Locke
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Matthew Stuart
ISBN: 9780199645114 0199645116 0191662828 9780191662829
OCLC Number: 829743936
Description: xvii, 522 pages ; 25 cm
Contents: Categories --
Qualities --
Secondary qualities --
Essence --
Substratum --
Mind and matter --
Identity --
Persons --
Agency: the first edition --
Agency: the revised account. Abbreviations and other conventions --
[Part 1]: Categories --
section 1. Introduction --
section 2. Modes --
section 3. Substances --
section 4. Mixed modes --
section 5. Relations --
[Part 2]: Qualities --
section 6. Qualities and powers --
section 7. Qualities in the drafts --
section 8. Defining primary qualities --
section 9. Extension --
section 10. Solidity --
section 11. Other primary qualities --
[Part 3]: Secondary qualities --
section 12. Two kinds of secondary qualities --
section 13. Resemblances and bare powers --
section 14. Colors --
section 15. Degenerate powers --
section 16. Apparent colors --
section 17. Colors and pains --
section 18. Transient colors --
section 19. Other powers --
[Part 4]: Essence --
section 20. Real and nominal essences --
section 21. Relative and total real essences --
section 22. Workmanship of the understanding --
section 23. Anti-essentialism --
section 24. Natural kinds --
section 25. Perfecting nominal essences --
[Part 5]: Substratum --
section 26. The Idea of substance --
section 27. Making the idea of substance --
section 28. A variety of readings --
section 29. Obscurity --
section 30. Confusedness --
section 31. Problems with the idea of substance --
[Part 6]: Mind and matter --
section 32. Immaterial substances --
section 33. A case for dualism --
section 34. Thinking matter --
section 35. Arbitrary determinations --
section 36. Voluntarism --
section 37. Mechanism --
[Part 7]: Identity --
section 38. Principles of individuation --
section 39. The problem of constitution --
section 40. Matter and temporal parts --
section 41. Persons and their parts --
section 42. The difficulty about this relation --
section 43. Against co-location --
section 44. Women and masses --
section 45. The oak and the horse --
section 46. Essence and identity --
section 47. Annihilation --
[Part 8]: Persons --
section 48. Introducing persons --
section 49. Persons and substances --
section 50. The necessity claim --
section 51. Remembering and forgetting --
section 52. The sufficiency claim --
section 53. A fatal error? --
section 54. Assessing the simple memory theory --
[Part 9]: Agency: the first edition --
section 55. Volition as preference --
section 56. The objects of volition --
section 57. Voluntary action --
section 58. Freedom and forbearance --
section 59. Volition and negative action --
section 60. A problem for Locke's account --
section 61. Freedom of the will --
section 62. Motivation and preference --
[Part 10]: Agency: the revised account --
section 63. Rethinking volition --
section 64. Rethinking motivation --
section 65. A mistake of one word --
section 66. Suspending desire --
section 67. Suspension and indeterminism --
section 68. Suspension and freedom --
section 69. Motivation and judgment --
section 70. Forbearance in the fifth edition --
Bibliography --
Index --
Index locorum.
Responsibility: Matthew Stuart.
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