Further Reading
- Ayers, Michael, "Locke: Volume I: Epistemology," London: Routledge, 1991, 341 p. (Divides discussion of Locke's epistemology into four sections: "Ideas," "Knowledge and Belief," "Perceptual Knowledge," and "Particulars, Universals and Intuitive Knowledge" with a view to illuminating connections between Locke's thought and the epistemological problems faced by contemporary philosophers.)
- Fowler, Thomas, "Essay on the Human Understanding," in Locke, pp. 127-51, London: Macmillan and Co., 1880. (Argues that "Locke was the first of modern writers to attempt at once an independent and a complete treatment of the phenomena of the human mind, of their mutual relations, of their causes and limits.")
- Heyd, Thomas, "Some Remarks on Science, Method and Nationalism in John Locke," History of European Ideas 16, Nos. 1-3, (January 1993): 97-102. (Discusses "first, Locke's relation to science and his method, second, the debt that … doctrines supportive of nationalism owe to [Locke's] method and background in science, and, in conclusion, a reason for reassessing Locke's method.")
- Kraus, John L., "John Locke: Empiricist, Atomist, Conceptualist, and Agnostic," New York: Philosophical Library, 1968, 202 p. (Kraus comments: "This present study has a twofold end: its primary end is to examine the theory of universal ideas set forth by John Locke; its secondary end is to show the relation of Locke's theory of universals to the question of a 'science' of physical things.")
- Mackie, J. L., "Problems from Locke," Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976, 237 p. (Examines "a limited number of problems of continuing philosophical interest [associated with the capacity for human knowledge] which are raised in Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding.")
- O'Connor, D. J., "John Locke," Melbourne: Penguin Books, 1952, 225 p. (Includes discussion of Locke's theory of knowledge, his philosophy of language in relation to human thought, and his political theory. O'Connor comments: "[M]y criticism of Locke is inevitably directed by my own philosophical outlook, a moderate empiricism which is not, I hope, too far removed from Locke's own position.")
- Walmsly, Peter, "Dispute and Conversation: Probability and the Rhetoric of Natural Philosophy in Locke's Essay," The Journal of the History of Ideas 54, No. 3 (July 1993): 381-94. (Discusses Locke's objections to "disputation" as a prominent element of university education during his time: "Locke objects [in the Essay] that this combative forum stunts intellectual growth.")
- Wilson, Milton, "Reading Locke and Newton as Literature," University of Toronto Quarterly 57, No. 4 (Summer 1988): 471-83. (Considers Locke's prose style in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: "Locke's Essay is both a perpetually half-revised and an increasingly open-ended book.")
- Wood, Neal, "Tabula Rasa, Social Environmentalism, and the 'English Paradigm'," The Journal of the History of Ideas LIII, No. 4 (October-December 1992): 647-68. (Notes that during the Enlightenment, Locke's empiricism became "a potent intellectual force" that influenced the ideas of diverse thinkers, and argues that "the notion of human malleability was transformed by some English Renaissance thinkers … into a 'social psychology' of tabula rasa, culminating in Bacon who launched the 'English paradigm' of social discourse.")
- Woolhouse, R. S., "Locke's Philosophy of Science and Knowledge: A Consideration of Some Aspects of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding," New York: Barnes & Noble, 1971, 204 p. (Focuses on "what is beginning to be seen as perhaps Locke's major theme which, amidst his discussion of particular topics, reappears throughout Books II, III, and IV, of the Essay: that of natural or scientific laws and our knowledge of them.")
- Youngren, William, "Founding English Ethics: Locke, Mathematics, and the Innateness Question," Eighteenth-Century Life 16, No. 3 (November 1992): 12-45. (Discusses Locke's "view that moral knowledge can attain mathematical certainty" in relation to seventeenth-century moral philosophy.)
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