1st Edition

Locke's Science of Knowledge

By Matt Priselac Copyright 2017
240 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding begins with a clear statement of an epistemological goal: to explain the limits of human knowledge, opinion, and ignorance. The actual text of the Essay , in stark contrast, takes a long and seemingly meandering path before returning to that goal at the Essay ’s end—one with many detours through questions in philosophy of mind, metaphysics,... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1: Simple Ideas, Ideas of Qualities, and the Simple Idea of Power

Chapter 2: The Genetic Structure of Ideas of Substances

Chapter 3: Locke’s Account of Knowledge

Chapter 4: Locke’s Account of Knowledge of the External World

Chapter 5: Locke’s Response to Skepticism

Chapter 6: Locke and Idealism

Biography

Matthew Priselac is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma, USA

"This study of Locke's epistemology in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is an original, ambitious, and complex monograph that also shows command of the relevant recent Locke scholarship … Locke scholars who work through Priselac's rich book will profit from the effort."Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews