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Ideas, Qualities and Corpuscles: Locke and Boyle on the External World

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Philosophy 63 (246):548-550 (1988)

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Peach trees, gravity and God: Mechanism in Locke.Marleen Rozemond & Gideon Yaffe - 2004 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 12 (3):387 – 412.details Locke claimed that God superadded various powers to matter, including motion, the perfections of peach trees and elephants, gravity, and that he could superadd thought. Various interpreters have discussed the question whether Locke's claims about superaddition are in tension with his commitment to mechanistic explanation. This literature assumes that for Locke mechanistic explanation involves deducibility. We argue that this is an inaccurate interpretation and that mechanistic explanation involves a different type of intelligibility for Locke. Download Export citation Bookmark 10 citations
(1 other version)" Das letzte Blatt im Buch der Natur"-Die Wirklichkeit der Atome und die Antinomie der Anschauung in den Korpuskulartheorien der frühen Neuzeit.Christoph Meinel - 1988 - Studia Leibnitiana 20:1-18.details Le présent article éclaire le contexte empirique et argumentatif du développement de la théorie corpusculaire de la matière au 17 e siècle. Dans le cadre d'une conception unitaire de la nature l'hypothèse atomique livra une description imagée des phénomènes en deça du perceptible à l'instar du monde visible. Cependant, tant sur le plan de la méthodologie empirique que sur celui de l'épistémologie, ces analogies n'étaient pas sans poser des problèmes. Différents arguments ont concouru à leur légitimation, mais aussi à leur (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Lockean fluids.Michael Jacovides - 2008 - In Paul Hoffman, David Owen & Gideon Yaffe (eds.), Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Vere Chappell. Peterborough, CA: Broadview Press.details Robert Boyle showed that air “has a Spring that enables it to sustain or resist a pressure” and also it has “an active Spring . . . as when it distends a flaccid or breaks a full-blown Bladder in our exhausted receiver” (Boyle 1999, 6.41-42).1 In this respect, he distinguished between air and other fluids, since liquids such as water are “not sensibly compressible by an ordinary force” (ibid., 5.264). He explained the air’s tendency to resist and to expand by (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Form, substance, and mechanism.Robert Pasnau - 2004 - Philosophical Review 113 (1):31-88.details Philosophers today have largely given up on the project of categorizing being. Aristotle’s ten categories now strike us as quaint, and no attempt to improve on that effort meets with much interest. Still, no one supposes that reality is smoothly distributed over space. The world at large comes in chunks, and there remains a widespread intuition, even among philosophers, that some of these chunks have a special sort of unity and persistence. These, we tend to suppose, are most truly agents (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 25 citations

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