Jacovides, Michael (Author)
Modern philosophy originates during the scientific revolution, and Michael Jacovides provides an engaging account of how this scientific background influences one of the foremost figures of early modern philosophy, John Locke. With this guiding thread, Jacovides gives clear and accurate answers to some of the central questions surrounding Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Why does he say that we have an obscure idea of substance? Why does he think that we perceive a two-dimensional array of color patches? Why does he think that matter can't naturally think? Why does he analyze secondary qualities as powers to produce ideas in us? Jacovides' method also allows him to trace the effects of Locke's scientific outlook on his descriptions of the way things appear to him and on his descriptions of the boundaries of conceivability. By placing Locke's thought in its scientific, religious, and anti-scholastic contexts, Jacovides explains not only what Locke believes but also why he believes it, and he thereby uncovers reveals the extra-philosophical sources of some of the central aspects of Locke's philosophy.
...MoreReview Matthew D. Priselac (2018) Review of "Locke's Image of the World". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 47-50).
Review Han Thomas Adriaenssen (2018) Review of "Locke's Image of the World". British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 1237-1238).
Article
Patrick J. Connolly;
(2015)
Lockean Superaddition and Lockean Humility
(/isis/citation/CBB228689926/)
Article
Ben-Chaim, Michael;
(2000)
Locke's ideology of “common sense”
(/isis/citation/CBB000111464/)
Book
Paganini, Gianni;
(2003)
The Return of Scepticism: From Hobbes and Descartes to Bayle
(/isis/citation/CBB000331034/)
Book
Steward, M. A.;
(2001)
English Philosophy in the Age of Locke
(/isis/citation/CBB000102186/)
Chapter
Look, Brandon;
(2009)
Leibniz and Locke on Real and Nominal Essences
(/isis/citation/CBB001021839/)
Chapter
Annalisa Coliva;
(2016)
Wittgenstein su rito, filosofia, scienza e progresso. Quattro temi a partire dalle "Note sul Ramo d'oro" di Frazer
(/isis/citation/CBB205077993/)
Book
Alexandrescu, Vlad;
(2009)
Branching Off: The Early Moderns in Quest of the Unity of Knowledge
(/isis/citation/CBB001021823/)
Book
Nolan, Lawrence;
(2011)
Primary and Secondary Qualities: The Historical and Ongoing Debate
(/isis/citation/CBB001035171/)
Thesis
Hill, Benjamin David;
(2003)
Studies in the Understructure: The Semiotic Basis of John Locke's Empirical Epistemology
(/isis/citation/CBB001562305/)
Book
Steven Nadler;
(2008)
The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil
(/isis/citation/CBB685775094/)
Book
Landucci, Sergio;
(2002)
La Mente in Cartesio
(/isis/citation/CBB000301858/)
Essay Review
Emanuela Scribano;
(2010)
Attorno a Steven Nadler
(/isis/citation/CBB973333595/)
Thesis
Jones, Jan-Erik;
(2002)
The “workmanship of the understanding”: Realist and anti-realist theories of classification in Boyle, Locke and Leibniz
(/isis/citation/CBB001562453/)
Book
Giuseppe Boscarino;
(2016)
Le forme e i mutamenti della scienza
(/isis/citation/CBB208526052/)
Book
Dascal, Marcelo;
(2008)
Leibniz: What Kind of Rationalist?
(/isis/citation/CBB001023818/)
Article
Simone Guidi;
(2014)
La favola della materia. Epistemologia e narrazione nel Monde di Descartes
(/isis/citation/CBB753563749/)
Book
Dario Generali;
(2016)
Le Radici della Razionalità Critica: Saperi, Pratiche, Teleologie. Studi offerti a Fabio Minazzi
(/isis/citation/CBB543052276/)
Chapter
Corneanu, Sorana;
(2009)
Locke on the Study of Nature
(/isis/citation/CBB001021831/)
Book
K. Meredith Ziebart;
(2013)
Nicolaus Cusanus on Faith and the Intellect: A Case Study in 15th-Century Fides-Ratio Controversy
(/isis/citation/CBB651329209/)
Book
Monod, Paul Kléber;
(2013)
Solomon's Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment
(/isis/citation/CBB001213599/)
Be the first to comment!