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mods: 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. …