This brief text assists students in understanding Locke's philosophy and thinking so they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue and improve their understanding of course content. Part of the Wadsworth Notes Series, (which will eventually consist of approximately 100 titles, each focusing on a single "thinker" from ancient times to the present), ON LOCKE is...(展开全部)

This is the first comprehensive biography of John Locke to be published in nearly a half century. Setting Locke's life within exciting historical and intellectual contexts, which included the English Civil War, religious persecution, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Roger Woolhouse interweaves an account of Locke's life with a summary and development of his ideas in theory ...(展开全部)

This is the first comprehensive biography in half a century of John Locke -“a man of versatile mind, fitted for whatever you shall undertake”, as one of his many good friends very aptly described him. Against an exciting historical background of the English Civil War, religious intolerance and bigotry, anti-Government struggles and plots, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688, ...(展开全部)

John Locke (1632-1704) one of the greatest English philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, argued in his masterpiece, "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding", that our knowledge is founded in experience and reaches us principally through our senses; but, its message has been curiously misunderstood. In this book, John Dunn shows how Locke arrived at...(展开全部)

John Locke is often thought of as one of the founders of the Enlightenment, a movement that sought to do away with the Bible and religion and replace them with scientific realism. But Locke was extremely interested in the Bible, and he was engaged by biblical theology and religion throughout his life. In this new book, K.I. Parker considers Locke’s interest in Scripture and how...(展开全部)

John Locke is often thought of as one of the founders of the Enlightenment, a movement that sought to do away with the Bible and religion and replace them with scientific realism. But Locke was extremely interested in the Bible, and he was engaged by biblical theology and religion throughout his life. In this new book, K.I. Parker considers Locke’s interest in Scripture and how...(展开全部)

克里普克，美国逻辑学家，哲学家。曾任教于哈佛、哥伦比亚、康奈尔和洛克菲勒等大学，1977年任普林斯顿大学哲学教授，后升任麦科什讲座哲学教授。他是模态逻辑语义学的创始人和因果-历史指称论的首倡者之一，认为名词的指称主要取决于与使用该名词有关的社会历史的传递链条。以此出发，他进一步阐发了有关专名和通名的理论，并由此构成了现代分析哲学的一个历史转折点。著有《命名和必然性》等。

Reference and Existence, Saul Kripke's John Locke Lectures for 1973, can be read as a sequel to his classic Naming and Necessity. It co nfronts important issues left open in that work -- among them, the semantics of proper names and natural kind terms as they occur in fiction and in myth; negative existential statements; the ontology of fiction and myth (whether it is true that...(展开全部)

克里普克，美国逻辑学家，哲学家。曾任教于哈佛、哥伦比亚、康奈尔和洛克菲勒等大学，1977年任普林斯顿大学哲学教授，后升任麦科什讲座哲学教授。他是模态逻辑语义学的创始人和因果-历史指称论的首倡者之一，认为名词的指称主要取决于与使用该名词有关的社会历史的传递链条。以此出发，他进一步阐发了有关专名和通名的理论，并由此构成了现代分析哲学的一个历史转折点。著有《命名和必然性》等。