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The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy: Volume 1 (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2008.The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy offers a uniquely comprehensive and authoritative overview of early-modern philosophy written by an international team of specialists. As with previous Cambridge Histories of Philosophy the subject is treated by topic and theme, and since history does not come packaged in neat bundles, the subject is also treated with great temporal flexibility, incorporating frequent reference to medieval and Renaissance ideas. The basic structure of the v…Read more
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82Perhaps everyone who can think has the concept of possibility, but no one understands it. The metaphysical theory of Determinism is a symptom of this lack of understanding, and the inconclusiveness of its opponents’ arguments indicates that the lack is universal. In this book, first published in 1968, the author shows that there are a number of different kinds on non-logical possibility, subtly interrelated, each requiring separate explanation. An original contribution to the subject, it is esse…Read more
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1Richard burthogge and the origins of modern conceptualismIn Tom Sorell & Graham Alan John Rogers (eds.), Analytic philosophy and history of philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2005.
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76Popkin’s revised scepticismBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 12 (2). 2004.This Article does not have an abstract
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53Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Probability And Possibility For Choice -- 1 Introductory -- 2 A Theory About Personal Power -- 3 A Criticism Of Keynes -- 4 Some More Theories About Personal Power -- 5 An Analogy Between Two Kinds Of Possibility -- 3 Probability And Natural Powers -- 1 Introductory -- 2 The Relation Between Epistemic And Natural Possibility -- 3 A Criticism Of …Read more
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9BENAYOUN Jean-Michel, Michel Prum and Patrick Tort (trans.): ŒuvresBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 16 (2): 455-459. 2008.
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John LockeIn Edward Craig (ed.), The shorter Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy, Routledge. pp. 583--600. 2005.
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20"The End of Metaphysics" and the Historiography of PhilosophyIn Alan J. Holland (ed.), Philosophy, Its History and Historiography, Reidel. pp. 27-40. 1985.No doubt most philosophers who spend time on the history of philosophy are familiar with that question asked to embarrass (and liable to be asked by scientists in particular) why the history of the subject should be thought a significant part of the subject itself. Either there is progress in philosophy, it is said, or there is not. If there is progress, why the laborious backward glances? How can the past be so important? Why aren’t philosophers like psychologists, given perhaps a short histori…Read more
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61Berkeley's Immaterialism and Kant's Transcendental IdealismRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 13 51-69. 1982.Ever since its first publication critics of Kant'sCritique of Pure Reasonhave been struck by certain strong formal resemblances between transcendental idealism and Berkeley's immaterialism. Both philosophers hold that the sensible world is mind-dependent, and that from this very mind-dependence we can draw a refutation of scepticism of the senses.
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86What is Realism?Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 102 (1): 293-320. 2002.A scholastic-Cartesian schema faithfully maps ordinary, effective ways of dealing with intentionality; yet its apparent incoherence provokes philosophers into opting for one of two stances, 'Cartesian' or 'direct realist', seemingly incompatible, yet each seem in accord with ordinary thought. A wide range of canonical and current theories, realist, idealist and hybrid, essentially involve one option or the other. We should instead consider why the language of intentionality, with its apparent an…Read more
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72Substance, Reality, and the Great, Dead PhilosophersAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 7 (1). 1970.
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130Primary and secondary qualities in Locke's 'Essay'In Lawrence Nolan (ed.), Primary and secondary qualities: the historical and ongoing debate, Oxford University Press. pp. 136. 2011.
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133The ideas of power and substance in Locke's philosophyPhilosophical Quarterly 25 (98): 1-27. 1975.
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87Problems from Locke by J. L. MackiePhilosophical Books 18 (2): 71-73. 1977.PROBLEMS FROM LOCKE by J. L. Mackie. Clarendon Press: O.U.P., 1976. ix+237 pp. £6 cloth, £2.50 paper.
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85Counterfactuals and subjunctive conditionalsMind 74 (295): 347-364. 1965.The author maintains that there is no special problem about the verification or analysis of counterfactual or unfulfilled conditional statements. there is no special problem about the verification or analysis of subjunctive conditionals. it exhausts the peculiar philosophical interest of these two classes of statement to explain why no philosopher ought to think them peculiarly interesting, and to explain why so many do. the author states that it should not be supposed that if he achieves his ai…Read more
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10Locke's Philosophy of Science and Knowledge. By R. S. Woolhouse (Oxford, Blackwell, 1971. Pp. 204 £2.75) (review)Philosophy 47 (181): 276-278. 1972.
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27Some ThoughtsProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 73. 1973.M. R. Ayers; V*—Some Thoughts, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 73, Issue 1, 1 June 1973, Pages 69–86, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristotelian/73.1.
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62Minds, Ideas and Objects (review)Philosophical Review 106 (2): 288-291. 1997.Minds, Ideas and Objects is a collection of conference papers on the topic of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theories of ideas or “sensory experience, thought, knowledge and their objects.” At least half the twenty-three papers are by well-known historians of philosophy who seldom disappoint, and there is some equally thought-provoking work among the rest. Some papers say little that is surprising, and some, including good ones, fail to convince, but few are weak. It is perhaps to be expect…Read more
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Epistemology |
Metaphilosophy |
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |