Locke's image of the world / Michael Jacovides.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacovides, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Locke, John, 1632-1704.

Locke, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Image of the world

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover ; Locke's Image of the World; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on References; Work by John Locke; Work by Classical Greek Authors; Work from the Hellenistic and Roman Eras; Work from the Middle Ages; Work by Averroes (Ibn Rushd); Other Work from the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries; Work by Thomas Aquinas; Work by William of Ockham; Work by Jean Buridan; Work from the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries; Work from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Scholastic Textbooks; Work by Galileo; Work by Thomas Hobbes; Work by René Descartes.

Work by Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole; Work by Henry More; Work by Thomas Willis; Work by Margaret Cavendish; Work by Thomas Sydenham; Work by Robert Boyle; Work by Christiaan Huygens; Work by Benedict Spinoza; Work by Louis de la Forge; Work by Edward Stillingfleet; Work by Robert Hooke; Work by Nicolas Malebranche; Work by Isaac Newton; Work by Gottfried Leibniz; Work by Richard Bentley; Work by George Berkeley; Work by David Hume; Other Work from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; 1: Introductory; 2: Hypotheses and Derivations; 2.1 Locke and Physiology.

2.2 Medicine and Skepticism about Hypotheses; 2.3 Mathematics and Machinery; 2.4 Malformation and Derivation; 3: The Boundaries of Conceivability; 3.1 Psychological Inconceivability; 3.2 Rival Hypotheses as Gibberish; 3.3 The Inconceivability of Action at a Distance; 3.4 Coming to Believe the Inconceivable; 3.5 The God of the Gaps; 4: Our Ignorance of Corporeal Substances; 4.1 Substances as Ordinary Objects; 4.2 What a Clear Idea of Substance Would Teach; 4.3 An Imperfect Definition of Body; 4.4 Corpuscularianism with Obscure Foundations; 5: Primary Qualities; 5.1 Method and Inseparability.

5.2 Solidity and Its Idea; 5.3 Derivative Primary Qualities; 5.4 Inherence and Primary Qualities; 6: Matter, Mind, and God; 6.1 Prime Matter and Perception; 6.2 Chemistry and Spirit; 6.3 Miracles and God's Wisdom; 6.4 Principles of Mind-Body Interaction; 6.5 Rationality and the Likelihood of Immaterial Souls; 7: The Visual Array; 7.1 The Retinal Image and What We See; 7.2 Realistic Paintings and What We See; 7.3 Ways of Seeing; 8: Resemblance and Cognition; 8.1 The Puzzle of Resemblance and Two Forms of Inherence; 8.2 Image and Resemblance among Locke's Predecessors; 8.3 Lockean Resemblance.

8.4 Locke's Theory of Representation; 8.5 The Justification of Locke's Resemblance Theses; 9: Meaning and Secondary Qualities; 9.1 Truth without Resemblance; 9.2 Secondary Qualities as Mere Powers; 9.3 The Irreality of Mere Powers and the Flexibility of Usage; 9.4 Unitary Structures and the Possibilities of Language; 10: Last Words; Bibliography; Index.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 6, 2017).

ISBN:

0-19-183151-4