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94Ordinary Objects, Ordinary Language, and IdentityThe Monist 88 (4): 534-570. 2005.The thesis of this paper concerns the fundamental role of "ordinary objects" with respect to the structure of natural language. It ascribes their role as basic objects of reference to their being both natural and "given" individuals. Section 1 will summarize that idea. Further argument will be offered in Section 2. An objection appealing to physical theory will be answered in Section 3. Sections 4, 5, and 6 consider the implications of the thesis for current theories of the identity of "or…Read more
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153Locke: OntologyRoutledge. 1991.John Locke is the greatest English philosopher. _An Essay Concerning Human Understanding_, one of the most influential books in the history of thought, is his greatest work. In this study the historical meaning and philosophical significance of Locke's _Essay_ are investigated more comprehensively than ever before. _Locke_ was originally published in two volumes, _Epistemology_ and _Ontology_. This paperback edition has within its covers the full text of both volumes.
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58Berkeley'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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83What 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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71Substance, Reality, and the Great, Dead PhilosophersAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 7 (1). 1970.
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128Primary 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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132The ideas of power and substance in Locke's philosophyPhilosophical Quarterly 25 (98): 1-27. 1975.
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82Problems 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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78Counterfactuals 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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8Locke'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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24Some 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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Epistemology |
Metaphilosophy |
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |