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In Lex Newman (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Locke's "Essay Concerning Human Understanding". New York: Cambridge University Press (2007)

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  1. The Philosophy of Robert Boyle.Peter R. Anstey - 2000 - New York: Routledge.
    This book presents the first integrated treatment of the philosophy of Robert Boyle, one of the leading English natural philosophers of the Scientific Revolution.
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  • Locke's Primary Qualities.Robert A. Wilson - 2002 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 40 (2):201-228.
    Introduction in chapter viii of book ii of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke provides various putative lists of primary qualities. Insofar as they have considered the variation across Locke's lists at all, commentators have usually been content simply either to consider a self-consciously abbreviated list (e.g., "Size, Shape, etc.") or a composite list as the list of Lockean primary qualities, truncating such a composite list only by omitting supposedly co-referential terms. Doing the latter with minimal judgment about what (...)
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  • The Status of Mechanism in Locke’s Essay.Lisa Downing - 1998 - Philosophical Review 107 (3):381-414.
    The prominent place 0f corpuscularizm mechanism in L0ckc`s Essay is nowadays universally acknowledged} Certainly, L0ckc’s discussions 0f the primary/secondary quality distinction and 0f real essences cannot be understood without reference to the corpuscularizm science 0f his day, which held that all macroscopic bodily phenomena should bc explained in terms 0f the motions and impacts 0f submicroscopic particles, 0r corpuscles, each of which can bc fully characterized in terms of 21 strictly limited range 0f (primary) properties: size, shape, motion (or mobility), (...)
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  • Locke on primary and secondary qualities.Samuel C. Rickless - 1997 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 78 (3):297-319.
    In this paper, I argue that Book II, Chapter viii of Locke' Essay is a unified, self-consistent whole, and that the appearance of inconsistency is due largely to anachronistic misreadings and misunderstandings. The key to the distinction between primary and secondary qualities is that the former are, while the latter are not, real properties, i.e., properties that exist in bodies independently of being perceived. Once the distinction is properly understood, it becomes clear that Locke's arguments for it are simple, valid (...)
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  • (1 other version)Reason, Truth and History.Kathleen Okruhlik - 1984 - Philosophy of Science 51 (4):692-694.
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  • (1 other version)Early Greek philosophy.Jonathan Barnes - 2001 - New York: Penguin Books.
    This anthology looks at the early sages of Western philosophy and science who paved the way for Plato and Aristotle and their successors. Democritus's atomic theory of matter, Zeno's dazzling "proofs" that motion is impossible, Pythagorean insights into mathematics, Heraclitus's haunting and enigmatic epigrams-all form part of a revolution in human thought that relied on reasoning, forged the first scientific vocabulary, and laid the foundations of Western philosophy. Jonathan Barnes has painstakingly brought together the surviving Presocratic fragments in their original (...)
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  • Cambridge changes of color.Michael Jacovides - 2000 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 81 (2):142-164.
    Locke’s porphyry argument at 2.8.19 of the Essay has not been properly appreciated. On my reconstruction, Locke argues from the premise that porphyry undergoes a mere Cambridge change of color in different lighting conditions to the conclusion that porphyry’s colors do not belong to it as it is in itself. I argue that his argument is not quite sound, but it would be if Locke chose a different stone, alexandrite. Examining his argument teaches us something about the relation between explanatory (...)
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  • (2 other versions)John Locke.Richard Ithamar Aaron - 1937 - New York [etc.]: Oxford university press.
    In this third edition of "John Locke", the text is divided into three parts. The first is biographical, giving an account of the development of Locke's mind. The second expounds the teaching of the "Essay", and relates this to its background; while the third deals with Locke's teaching in political theory, moral philosophy, education, and religion. -- From publisher's description.
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  • A Note on Interpretation.Jonathan Bennett - 1982 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 12 (4):753 - 755.
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  • The Primary/Secondary Quality Distinction: Berkeley, Locke, and the Foundations of Corpuscularian Science.Arnold I. Davidson & Norbert Hornstein - 1984 - Dialogue 23 (2):281-303.
    Recent interpretations of Locke's primary/secondary quality distinction have tended to emphasize Locke's relationship to the corpuscularian science of his time, especially to that of Boyle. Although this trend may have corrected the unfortunate tendency to view Locke in isolation from his scientific contemporaries, it nevertheless has resulted in some over- simplifications and distortions of Locke's general enterprise. As everyone now agrees, Locke was attempting to provide a philosophical foundation for English corpuscularianism and one must therefore look not only at the (...)
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  • Problems from Locke.J. L. Mackie - 1976 - Oxford [Eng.]: Clarendon Press.
    Annotation In this book Mr. Mackie selects for critical discussion six related topic which are prominent in John Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding: ...
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  • Two troublesome claims about qualities in Locke's essay.Robert Cummins - 1975 - Philosophical Review 84 (3):401-418.
    In book two, Chapter eight of the essay, Locke claims that primary qualities, Unlike secondary qualities, Are really in objects and are resemblances of our ideas. The idioms of containment and of resemblance are explained as formulations of what jonathan bennett calls the analytic thesis and the causal thesis. It is argued that locke was concerned to distinguish primary qualities from what he calls secondary qualities because he thought the latter were not really qualities at all but mere powers and (...)
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  • (1 other version)Symposium: On What there is.P. T. Geach, A. J. Ayer & W. V. Quine - 1948 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 25 (1):125-160.
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  • The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope.Catherine Wilson - 1995 - Journal of the History of Biology 29 (3):466-468.
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  • (1 other version)Locke on Qualities.John Campbell - 1998 - In Vere Claiborne Chappell (ed.), Locke. New York: Oxford University Press.
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  • (1 other version)Locke, Berkeley, Hume: Central Themes.Jonathan Bennett - 1971 - Philosophy 47 (180):175-176.
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  • Ideas, Qualities and Corpuscles: Locke and Boyle on the External World.Paul Hoffman & Peter Alexander - 1987 - Philosophical Review 96 (4):603.
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  • Die Mechanisierung des Weltbildes im 17. Jahrhundert. [REVIEW]Gerhart H. Saenger - 1938 - Journal of Philosophy 35 (23):638-639.
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  • Locke.R. S. Woolhouse - 1983 - Brighton, Sussex: Harvester Press.
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  • 3 Locke's philosophy of body.Edwin McCann - 1994 - In Vere Chappell (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Locke. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 56.
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  • (1 other version)Locke, Berkeley, Hume: Central Themes.Jonathan Bennett - 1971 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 3 (4):691-701.
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  • Problems from Locke.Peter Alexander - 1977 - Philosophical Quarterly 27 (107):169-172.
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  • God and the Soul.Antony Flew & Peter Geach - 1970 - Philosophical Quarterly 20 (79):189.
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  • Ideas, Sentiments, and Qualities.Kenneth P. Winkler - 1992 - In Phillip D. Cummins (ed.), Minds, Ideas, and Objects: Essays on the Theory of Representation in Modern Philosophy. Ridgeview Publishing Company.
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  • Ideas, Qualities and Corpuscles: Locke and Boyle on the External World.Peter Alexander - 1985 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    This study presents a substantial and often radical reinterpretation of some of the central themes of Locke's thought. Professor Alexander concentrates on the Essay Concerning Human Understanding and aims to restore that to its proper historical context. In Part I he gives a clear exposition of some of the scientific theories of Robert Boyle, which, he argues, heavily influenced Locke in employing similar concepts and terminology. Against this background, he goes on in Part II to provide an account of Locke's (...)
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  • Can There be Colors in the Dark? Physical Color Theory Before Newton.Henry Guerlac - 1986 - Journal of the History of Ideas 47 (1):3.
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  • John Locke. [REVIEW]Julius R. Weinberg - 1940 - Philosophical Review 49 (1):83-85.
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  • (1 other version)Substances, substrata, and names of substances in Locke's essay.Martha Brandt Bolton - 1976 - Philosophical Review 85 (4):488-513.
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  • Substance, reality, and primary qualities.Jonathan Bennett - 1965 - American Philosophical Quarterly 2 (1):1-17.
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  • (1 other version)Locke on Qualities.John Campbell - 1980 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 10 (4):567-585.
    cellence of current Locke exegesis, however, should not blind us to the fact that recent readings are in urgent need of supplementation: and one aim of this paper is to show how this might be achieved.
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  • Locke, Berkeley, Hume: Central Themes.Charles E. Marks - 1974 - Philosophical Review 83 (1):126.
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas on the immaterial reception of sensible forms.Sheldon M. Cohen - 1982 - Philosophical Review 91 (2):193-209.
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  • Secondary qualities.D. Goldstick - 1987 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 48 (1):145-146.
    LOCKE WAS RIGHT TO SAY PRIMARY QUALITIES "RESEMBLE" OUR\nIDEAS OF THEM IN A WAY SECONDARY QUALITIES DO NOT, BECAUSE\nHAVING THE APPROPRIATE PRIMARY-QUALITY "IDEA" IS LOGICALLY\nSUFFICIENT IN EACH CASE FOR KNOWING HOW SOMETHING MUST BE\n(INTRINSICALLY) IN ORDER FOR THE "QUALITY" TO INHERE IN IT.\nCOMPARE THE WAY A PERSON IS SAID TO "RESEMBLE" A VERBAL\nDESCRIPTION IN THE EVENT OF "ANSWERING TO" IT.
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