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1104Sense Experience, Concepts and Content, Objections to Davidson and McDowellIn Ralph Schumacher (ed.), Perception and Reality - From Descartes to the Present, Mentis. 2004.Philosophers debate whether all, some or none of the represcntational content of our sensory experience is conccptual, but the technical term "concept" has different uses. It is commonly linked more or less closely with the notions of judgdment and reasoning, but that leaves open the possibility that these terms share a systematic ambiguity or indeterminacy. Donald Davidson, however, holds an unequivocal and consistent, if paradoxical view that there are strictly speaking no psychological states…Read more
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4The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy 2 Volume Paperback Set (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1998.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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The foundations of knowledge and the logic of substanceIn Graham Alan John Rogers (ed.), Locke's Philosophy: Content and Context, Oxford University Press. pp. 49--73. 1994.
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95Ordinary 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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156Locke: 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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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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85What 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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129Primary 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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84Problems 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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