Locke's metaphysics / Matthew Stuart.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Matthew Stuart offers a fresh interpretation of John Locke's 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding', arguing for the work's profound contribution to metaphysics. He presents new readings of Locke's accounts of personal identity and the primary/secondary quality distinction, and explores Locke's case against materialism and his philosophy of action.

Contents -- Abbreviations and Other Conventions -- 1 Categories -- Â1 Introduction -- Â2 Modes -- Â3 Substances -- Â4 Mixed Modes -- Â5 Relations -- 2 Qualities -- Â6 Qualities and Powers -- Â7 Qualities in the Drafts -- Â8 Defining Primary Qualities -- Â9 Extension -- Â10 Solidity -- Â11 Other Primary Qualities -- 3 Secondary Qualities -- Â12 Two Kinds of Secondary Qualities -- Â13 Resemblances and Bare Powers -- Â14 Colors -- Â15 Degenerate Powers -- Â16 Apparent Colors -- Â17 Colors and Pains -- Â18 Transient Colors

Â19 Other Powers4 Essence -- Â20 Real and Nominal Essences -- Â21 Relative and Total Real Essences -- Â22 Workmanship of the Understanding -- Â23 Anti-Essentialism -- Â24 Natural Kinds -- Â25 Perfecting Nominal Essences -- 5 Substratum -- Â26 The Idea of Substance -- Â27 Making the Idea of Substance -- Â28 A Variety of Readings -- Â29 Obscurity -- Â30 Confusedness -- Â31 Problems with the Idea of Substance -- 6 Mind and Matter -- Â32 Immaterial Substances -- Â33 A Case for Dualism -- Â34 Thinking Matter

Â35 Arbitrary DeterminationsÂ36 Voluntarism -- Â37 Mechanism -- 7 Identity -- Â38 Principles of Individuation -- Â39 The Problem of Constitution -- Â40 Matter and Temporal Parts -- Â41 Persons and their Parts -- Â42 The Difficulty About this Relation -- Â43 Against Co-location -- Â44 Women and Masses -- Â45 The Oak and the Horse -- Â46 Essence and Identity -- Â47 Annihilation -- 8 Persons -- Â48 Introducing Persons -- Â49 Persons and Substances -- Â50 The Necessity Claim -- Â51 Remembering and Forgetting

Â52 The Sufficiency ClaimÂ53 A Fatal Error? -- Â54 Assessing the Simple Memory Theory -- 9 Agency: The First Edition -- Â55 Volition as Preference -- Â56 The Objects of Volition -- Â57 Voluntary Action -- Â58 Freedom and Forbearance -- Â59 Volition and Negative Action -- Â60 A Problem for Lockeâ€?s Account -- Â61 Freedom of the Will -- Â62 Motivation and Preference -- 10 Agency: The Revised Account -- Â63 Rethinking Volition -- Â64 Rethinking Motivation -- Â65 A Mistake of One Word -- Â66 Suspending Desire

Â67 Suspension and IndeterminismÂ68 Suspension and Freedom -- Â69 Motivation and Judgment -- Â70 Forbearance in the Fifth Edition -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Index Locorum

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