Locke's metaphysics / Matthew Stuart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stuart, Matthew Alan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Locke, John, 1632-1704. Essay concerning human understanding.

Locke, John.

Locke, John, 1632-1704.

Philosophy, English--17th century.

Philosophy, English.

Metaphysics.

First philosophy.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 522 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 24, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-176091-9

0-19-166282-8

OCLC:

922972279