The empiricists critical essays on Locke, Berkeley, and Hume

The empiricists critical essays on Locke, Berkeley, and Hume / edited by Margaret Atherton.

This collection of essays on themes in the work of John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume, provides a deepened understanding of major issues raised in the Empiricist tradition. In exploring their shared belief in the experiential nature of mental constructs, The Empiricists illuminates the diff...

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Other Authors: Atherton, Margaret
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c1999.
Series:Critical essays on the classics.
Ebsco e-book purchased.
Subjects:
Locke, John, > 1632-1704.
Berkeley, George, > 1685-1753.
Hume, David, > 1711-1776.
Empiricism > History.
Philosophy, British > History.
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Table of Contents:
  • "Ideas" and objects" : Locke on perceiving "things" / Ian Tipton
  • The foundations of knowledge and the logic of substance : the structure of Locke's general philosophy / Michael R. Ayers
  • Locke, law, and the law of nature / G.A.J. Rogers
  • Locke on identity : matter, life, and consciousness / Edwin McCann
  • Berkeley's ideas of sense / Phillip D. Cummins
  • Did Berkeley completely misunderstand the basis of the primary-secondary quality distinction in Locke? / Margaret D. Wilson
  • Berkeleian idealism and impossible performances / George Pappas
  • Berkeley's notion of spirit / Charles J. McCracken
  • The presentation of causation and Hume's two definitions of "cause" / Don Garrett
  • Hume's inductive skepticism / Kenneth Winkler
  • The soul and the self / Robert Fogelin
  • Hume's scepticism : natural instincts and philosophical reflection / Barry Stroud.

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