Locke - Arg Phil

First published in 1999. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a philosopher of major influence and significance. This book includes two volumes of essays on Locke's work.

Table of Contents:
VOLUME I EPISTEMOLOGY Introduction PART I IDEAS 1 Introduction to Part I 2 Ideas and compositionalism in traditional logic 3 Ideas and epistemology before Locke 4 Simple and complex ideas 5 Ideas as images 6 Ideas as intentional acts and ideas as intentional objects 7 Ideas as natural signs 8 Ideas: a summary 9 Reflections on the structure of thought PART II KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF 10 Introduction to Part II 11 The degrees of knowledge and the role of method 12 Other divisions of knowledge 13 Probability and the nature of 'assent' 14 The grounds of probability 15 Reflections on the definition of knowledge 16 Belief and, rationality PART III PERCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE 17 Introduction to Part III 18 The authority and limits of 'sensitive knowledge' 19 Does perceptual knowledge have independent authority? 20 Does perceptual knowledge have a firm boundary? 21 The scope of perceptual knowledge 22 Two modern approaches to sensation 23 Private language and secondary qualities PART IV PARTICULARS, UNIVERSALS AND INTUITIVE KNOWLEDGE 24 Introduction to Part IV 25 Locke's arguments on space and time in context 26 Thought about particulars 27 Locke's theory of universal knowledge in context 28 Abstraction and the ideal of precision 29 Intuition and innate knowledge 30 Locke on meaning and some modern criticisms 31 Reflections on understanding and imagination 32 Necessity, reason and language 33 Conclusions of Volume I VOLUME II ONTOLOGY Introduction PART I SUBSTANCE AND MODE 1 Introduction to Part I 2 Substance, essence and accidents before Locke 3 Our complex ideas of substances and the idea of substance in general 4 Substance and real essence, matter and spirit, and the obscurity and confusion of the idea of substance 5 Substance, mode and the argument from language 6 Species and their names in the corpuscularian world 7 Are there real species? 8 Locke on the difference between substances and modes 9 Reflections on the notion of substance PART II GOD, NATURE AND THE LAW OF NATURE 10 Introduction to Part II 11 Forms of mechanism before Locke 12 The form of Locke's mechanism 13 Reflections on rationalism, empiricism and mechanism 14 The existence of God 15 The Law of Nature and human freedom 16 Reflections on Locke's ethics PART III IDENTITY 17 Introduction to Part III 18 Locke on 'masses of matter' 19 Locke on living things 20 Forms of material unity 21 Artificial and other problematic objects 22 Personal identity before the Essay 23 Locke's theory of personal identity 24 Contemporary reactions to Locke's theory 25 Neo-Lockean and anti-Lockean theories of personal identity in analytic philosophy 26 Conclusions of Volume II