Empiricists

Critical Essays on Locke, Berkeley, and Hume

AvMargaret Atherton

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

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Beskrivning

This collection of essays on themes in the work of John Locke, George Berkeley and David Hume is intended to provide a deepened understanding of major issues raised in the Empiricist tradition. It introduces students to important metaphysical and epistemological issues including the theory of ideas, personal identity and skepticism, through the best of contemporary scholarship.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1998-12-23
Mått:147 x 228 x 17 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Essays on the Classics Series
Antal sidor:278
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780847689132

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Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

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.

Innehållsförteckning

Part 1 IntroductionPart 2 AcknowledgementsChapter 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 PhilosophyChapter 5 3 Locke, Law, and the Law of NatureChapter 6 4 Locke on Identity: Matter, Life, and ConsciousnessChapter 7 5 Berkeley's Ideas of SenseChapter 8 6 Did Berkeley Completely Misunderstand the Basis of the Primary-Secondary Quality Distinction in Locke?Chapter 9 7 Berkeleian Idealism and Impossible PerformancesChapter 10 8 Berkeley's Notion of SpiritChapter 11 9 The Representation of Causation and Hume's Two Definitions of CauseChapter 12 10 Hume's Inductive ScepticismChapter 13 11 The Soul and the SelfChapter 14 12 Hume's Scepticism: Natural Instincts and Philosophical ReflectionPart 15 Selected BibliographyPart 16 Authors