Learning from six philosophers Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume Vol. 2 Bennett, Jonathan 1930- creator text bibliography Electronic books. enk Oxford Clarendon 2001 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (550 pages) In this work, Jonathan Bennett engages with the thought of six great thinkers of the early modern period: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley and Hume. His chief focus is on the words they wrote. Intro -- Contents -- VOLUME 2 -- Preface to Volume 2 -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER 21: LOCKEAN IDEAS, OVERVIEW AND FOUNDATIONS -- 154. Locke's explanation of the term 'idea' -- 155. The roles played by Lockean ideas -- 156. How ideas represent: two theories -- 157. A third theory -- 158. Against reification -- 159. Locke and the reification of ideas -- CHAPTER 22: LOCKEAN IDEAS, SOME DETAILS -- 160. Are all Lockean ideas images? -- 161. Locke's two accounts of abstract ideas -- 162. Berkeley's first attack on abstract ideas -- 163. Can images be abstract? -- 164. Berkeley's second attack -- 165. Hume's variant on it -- 166. Abstract ideas and complex ideas -- 167. Ideas and concepts -- 168. Ideas and qualities -- 169. Explaining the idea/quality conflation -- CHAPTER 23: KNOWLEDGE OF NECESSITY -- 170. Innate knowledge: introduction -- 171. Dispositional innate knowledge -- 172. Leibniz on dispositional innatism -- 173. Locke on modal discovery: the relevance problem -- 174. Other relations -- 175. Locke on modal discovery: the necessity problem -- 176. Leibniz's first modal epistemology -- 177. Leibniz's second modal epistemology -- 178. Leibniz's relevance problem -- 179. Innately possessed ideas -- CHAPTER 24: DESCARTES'S THEORY OF MODALITY -- 180. Descartes's voluntarism about modal truths -- 181. The two parts of Descartes's voluntarism: the tandem puzzle -- 182. Omnipotence and small achievements -- 183. Subjective and objective: the bootstraps problem -- 184. Theorizing about the basis of modality: the libertinism threat -- 185. Descartes's handling of the threat -- 186. Can Descartes's God deceive? -- CHAPTER 25: SECONDARY QUALITIES -- 187. Locke's corpuscularianism -- 188. The corpuscularian thesis about what secondary qualities are -- 189. Why the central thesis is true -- 190. A diffference of kind. 191. How Locke defends the central thesis -- 192. How the central thesis solves the problem -- 193. The 'no resemblance' thesis -- 194. Is the central thesis a semantic one? -- CHAPTER 26: LOCKE ON ESSENCES -- 195. Essences of individuals -- 196. The first opinion about real essences -- 197. The second opinion about real essences -- 198. How we classify -- 199. Guessing at real essences -- 200. Meanings and essences -- 201. The nature and source of Locke's failure -- 202. Essences and universals -- CHAPTER 27: SUBSTANCE IN LOCKE -- 203. The substratum theory -- 204. Locke's attitude to it -- 205. How to avoid Locke's impasse -- 206. Ayers's interpretation of 'substance' in Locke -- 207. Two exegetical problems -- CHAPTER 28: BERKELEY AGAINST MATERIALISM -- 208. Foundationalism -- 209. Descartes on the existence of matter -- 210. Locke on the existence of matter -- 211. Berkeley's first attack: materialism clashes with common sense -- 212. Second attack: materialism is not supported by evidence -- 213. Third attack: materialism is certainly false -- 214. The occasionalist escape -- 215. Fourth attack: materialism is conceptually defective -- CHAPTER 29: BERKELEY'S USES OF LOCKE'S WORK -- 216. Why Berkeley cares about abstract ideas -- 217. What Berkeley says about secondary qualities -- 218. What Berkeley says about substratum substance -- CHAPTER 30: BERKELEY ON SPIRITS -- 219. Berkeley on 'spirit' -- 220. Berkeley against solipsism -- 221. Only spirits can be causes -- 222. Berkeley's natural theology -- 223. Human agency -- 224. Other people -- CHAPTER 31: BERKELEIAN SENSIBLE THINGS -- 225. Each sensible thing is a collection of ideas -- 226. Problems with collections -- 227. Berkeley's disrespect towards 'sensible thing' -- 228. The vulgar sense of 'same' -- 229. The continuity of sensible things -- 230. The continuity argument. 231. Idealism and phenomenalism -- 232. Was Berkeley a phenomenalist? -- 233. Phenomenalism and the creation -- 234. Why was Berkeley not a phenomenalist? -- CHAPTER 32: HUME'S 'IDEAS' -- 235. Approaching Hume -- 236. What kind of philosopher was Hume? -- 237. A case-study: the belief in body -- 238. The idea/impression line: distractions -- 239. The idea/impression line: what it is -- 240. An odd problem -- 241. Memory -- 242. The line between simple and complex ideas -- 243. The copy thesis: problems -- 244. The copy thesis: a triple revision -- 245. The missing shade of blue -- 246. Passion and reflection -- CHAPTER 33: HUME AND BELIEF -- 247. Propositional thoughts -- 248. Beliefs and other propositional thoughts -- 249. Looking for an account of belief -- 250. Hume's account of belief -- 251. Belief: feeling versus intellect -- CHAPTER 34: SOME HUMEAN DOCTRINE ABOUT RELATIONS -- 252. The association of ideas: preliminaries -- 253. Three of the four natural relations -- 254. The fourth relation: causation -- 255. The importance of the thesis in Hume's thought -- 256. Seven kinds of relations -- 257. Two dichotomies -- CHAPTER 35: HUME ON CAUSATION, NEGATIVELY -- 258. Observing particular cause-effect pairs -- 259. The gateway to the neighbouring fields -- 260. The status of the principle of universal causation -- 261. Hume's influential error about distinctness of ideas -- 262. Steering around it -- 263. The point of the question about universal causation -- 264. Causal inferences from memory and sensory experience -- 265. Causation and absolute necessity -- 266. The Lockean inference to power -- 267. Four of Hume's objections to the Lockean inference -- 268. A further objection -- CHAPTER 36: HUME ON CAUSATION, POSITIVELY -- 269. The causes of causal inferences -- 270. Hume's best account of causation. 271. The elusiveness of impressions of compulsion -- 272. The absurdity of 'impression of compulsion' -- 273. Was Hume a sceptic about causation? -- 274. The great objection to the 'Humean view of causation' -- 275. Did Hume accept the 'Humean view of causation'? -- CHAPTER 37: HUME ON THE EXISTENCE OF BODIES -- 276. The project in Treatise I.iv.2 -- 277. The role of the senses -- 278. The role of reason -- 279. Imagination: creaking and contradiction -- 280. Imagination: oceans and explanation -- 281. The 'what genus?' question -- 282. Hume's 'system': the identity move -- 283. Hume's 'system': the remainder -- 284. What is wrong with The Belief -- CHAPTER 38: REASON -- 285. Reasoning in man and beast -- 286. Demonstrative reasoning -- 287. A sceptical attack on reason: preliminaries -- 288. A sceptical attack on reason: the argument -- 289. How Hume responds to the attack -- 290. The real importance of Treatise iv.1 -- CHAPTER 39: LOCKE ON DIACHRONIC IDENTITY-JUDGEMENTS -- 291. Atoms and aggregates of them -- 292. Organisms -- 293. Relative identity -- 294. 'Same man' -- 295. Persons -- 296. Persons and substances -- 297. Personal identity -- 298. Locke's analysis is too weak -- 299. Locke's analysis is too strong -- 300. People as animals -- 301. 'A forensic concept' -- 302. Same person, same substance? -- CHAPTER 40: HUME AND LEIBNIZ ON PERSONAL IDENTITY -- 303. Diachronic identity statements: Hume's approach and Locke's -- 304. Optimal diachronic identity statements -- 305. Hume tries to explain some of Locke's results -- 306. Hume on personal identity: negative -- 307. Hume on personal identity: positive -- 308. Pears on omitting the body -- 309. Hume's recantation -- 310. Coda: Hume and Berkeley on the passage of time -- 311. Leibniz on what a substance is -- 312. Leibniz and Hume compared -- Bibliography -- Index of Persons -- A -- B -- C. D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Index of Subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- L -- M -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T. specialized Jonathan Bennett. Includes bibliographical references and index. Philosophy, Modern 17th century Philosophy, Modern 18th century Philosophy, Modern Philosophie 17e siècle Philosophie 18e siècle History & Surveys PHILOSOPHY Modern Philosophy, Modern 1600-1799 fast B791 190 0198250924 9780198250920 9780191597060 0191597066 9780191520303 0191520306 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/3346 SHS 091203 20260318180620.5 in00005705890 eng