Margaret Atherton is professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee. She is the author of Berkeley's Revolution and Vision and the editor of Women Philosophers of Early Modern Europe.

• Part 1 Introduction Part 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 1 "Ideas" and "Objects": Locke on Perceiving "Things" Chapter 4 2 The Foundations of Knowledge and the Logic of Substance: The Structure of Locke's General Philosophy Chapter 5 3 Locke, Law, and the Law of Nature Chapter 6 4 Locke on Identity: Matter, Life, and Consciousness Chapter 7 5 Berkeley's Ideas of Sense Chapter 8 6 Did Berkeley Completely Misunderstand the Basis of the Primary-Secondary Quality Distinction in Locke? Chapter 9 7 Berkeleian Idealism and Impossible Performances Chapter 10 8 Berkeley's Notion of Spirit Chapter 11 9 The Representation of Causation and Hume's Two Definitions of Cause Chapter 12 10 Hume's Inductive Scepticism Chapter 13 11 The Soul and the Self Chapter 14 12 Hume's Scepticism: Natural Instincts and Philosophical Reflection Part 15 Selected Bibliography Part 16 Authors