The Empiricists Critical Essays on Locke, Berkeley, and Hume

by Atherton, Margaret; Ayers, M R.; Cummins, Phillip D.; Fogelin, Robert; Garrett, Don; McCann, Edwin; McCracken, Charles J.; Pappas, George; Rogers, G.A.J; Stroud, Barry; Tipton, Ian; Wilson, Margaret D.; Winkler, Kenneth

• ISBN13: 9780847689132
• ISBN10: 0847689131
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-12-23
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This new 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. Along with The Rationalist Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, edited by Derk Pereboom, it should be especially useful in courses devoted to the history of modern philosophy.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
"Ideas" and "Objects": Locke on Perceiving "Things"	p. 1
The Foundations of Knowledge and the Logic of Substance: The Structure of Locke's General Philosophy	p. 19
Locke, Law, and the Law of Nature	p. 47
Locke on Identity: Matter, Life, and Consciousness	p. 63
Berkeley's Ideas of Sense	p. 89
Did Berkeley Completely Misunderstand the Basis of the Primary-Secondary Quality Distinction in Locke?	p. 107
Berkeleian Idealism and Impossible Performances	p. 125
Berkeley's Notion of Spirit	p. 145
The Representation of Causation and Hume's Two Definitions of "Cause"	p. 153
Hume's Inductive Skepticism	p. 183
The Soul and the Self	p. 213
Hume's Scepticism: Natural Instincts and Philosophical Reflection	p. 229
Selected Bibliography	p. 253
Authors	p. 257
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