Peter Alexander

Ideas, Qualities and Corpuscles

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study presents a substantial and often radical reinterpretation of some of the central themes of Locke's thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 565g
• ISBN-13: 9780521107341
• ISBN-10: 0521107342
• Artikelnr.: 25934057

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: 1. Boyle on empirical investigation
2. Boyle and the peripatetics
3. Boyle's corpuscular philosophy
Part II: 4. Ideas
5. Qualities
6. Which qualities are primary?
7. Powers
8. What are secondary qualities?
9. Observability
10. Patterns and resemblance
11. Substance-in-general
12. Language and meaning
13. Essences, species and kinds
14. Knowledge.