Locke’s metaphysics / Matthew Stuart.

Stuart, Matthew, author, Author.
Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2013.
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Notes:

  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-506) and indexes.
  • Categories — Qualities — Secondary qualities — Essence — Substratum — Mind and matter — Identity — Persons — Agency: the first edition — Agency: the revised account.
  • 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 sufficienc
  • 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.

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