Locke and the mind-body problem: An interpretation of his agnosticism

Philosophy

Volumn 83, Issue 326, 2008, Pages 439-458

  Kim, Han Kyul ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 62149150643     PISSN: 00318191     EISSN: 1469817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003181910800082X     Document Type: Review

References (16)

1. Colin McGinn, 'Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem?', Mind 98 (1989), p. 351, footnote 4
2. All references to Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding are to Peter H. Nidditch's edition (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975). References are given by book, chapter, and section numbers
3. The Philosophical Writings of Descartes (CSM), translated and edited by John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, Dugald Murdoch, Anthony Kenny (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), vol. I, p. 215
4. For this description see Lennon, The Battle of the Gods and Giants: The Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), p. 320
5. Quoted from Lennon, p. 320. In fact Cudworth does not specifically refer to Hobbes as the philosopher who maintains this materialist position, but just uses the expression "Modern Writer". Lennon remarks that it is John Yolton who believes that "the reference is clearly" to Hobbes, and that the quoted passage outlines a "reductionist thesis". For this discussion, see Yolton, Thinking Matter: Materialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983), pp. 6-7
6. Berkeley, Philosophical Works, edited by M. R. Ayers (London: J. M. Dent, 1975), p. 251
7. See also Colin McGinn, 'A Note on the Essence of Natural Kinds', Analysis 35 (1975), pp. 177-83
8. and Michael Ayers, 'Locke versus Aristotle on Natural Kinds', Journal of Philosophy 78 (1981), pp. 247-71
9. Mr. Locke's Reply to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Worcester's Answer to his Second Letter, London, 1699
10. reprinted in The Works of John Locke (Darmstadt: Scientia, 1963), vol. 4, p. 460
11. Thomas Nagel, The View From Nowhere (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 1986, p. 30
12. Philip Hanson, 'McGinn's Cognitive Closure', Dialogue 32 (1993), p. 585, footnote 3
13. Ibid
14. Mr. Locke's Reply to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Worcester's Answer to his Second Letter, p. 462
15. Tom Stoneham, 'The 'Idealism' of Richard Burthogge', an unpublished manuscript, 2007
16. Richard Burthogge, Essay upon Reason, reprinted and abridged in M. Landes (ed.), The Philosophical Writings of Richard Burthogge (Chicago: Open Court, 1921), p. 78