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Locke Studies, 2018 Hate speech is a high profile issue in many liberal democracies today. While commentaries by constitutional experts and jurists abound in the press, and by legal and political philosophers in academia, it is remarkable that there is far less ...
J. K. Numao
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JOHN LOCKE AFTER 300 YEARS [PDF]
John Locke was a seminal figure in political philosophy and political economy and this year marks the tercentenary of his death. The paper focuses on the classical liberal interpretation of Locke. In this view, Locke defends individualism, natural rights
Alvey, James E.
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Animal Logic: Locke and the Nature of Inference
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Can animals reason? If so, what would their reasoning consist in, and how, if at all, would it differ from its human counterpart? On these questions, John Locke stakes out a position that also merits consideration today. I argue that, for Locke, reasoning is a matter of the subject's construing her mental states as support for a conclusion ...
Walter Ott
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Locke and the Real Problem of Causation
Locke Studies, 2015 Any number of problems about causation emerge when one puts Locke into contact with other philosophers such as Hume. But Locke’s real problem with causation is internal to his view.
Walter Ott
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Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Zusammenfassung Die consolatio als Gattung verschwindet nach derzeitigem Forschungsstand gegen Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts, doch auch im 18. Jahrhundert finden sich Ausläufer dieser bedeutsamen philosophisch‐rhetorischen Tradition. Voltaire widmet dem Trost, mit seiner Kurzerzählung Les deux consolés, noch zur Jahrhundertmitte eine literarische Parodie ...
Konstanze Baron
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Locke, Horace, and a Syllabus Errorum
Locke Studies, 2015 Houghton Library, Harvard University, fMS Eng 1090 (4) is an unpublished manuscript leaf in Locke’s hand.
Felix Waldmann
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, 2012 Even twenty-five years ago, it might have been eccentric to ask whether John Locke was a theorist of empire. Within the shorthand histories of political thought, Locke was the grandfather of liberalism; in the standard histories of philosophy, he was the exemplar of empiricism.
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Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper addresses the following questions: When do AIs die? Are AI labs or AI users causing the death of AIs? Is this bad for the AIs? What are our ethical responsibilities in light of the answers to these questions? It is currently unclear whether AIs are welfare subjects, and, if they are, whether their death is bad for them. But we argue
Simon Goldstein, Harvey Lederman
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Locke's Orthography and the Dating of his Writings
Locke Studies, 2018 Anyone reading Locke’s works, especially those edited from manuscript, in an unmodernised edition can hardly avoid noticing that his preferred spellings are by no means always those used in present-day English.
J. R. Milton
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A morality of recognition maintains that moral norms have their authority in virtue of the ways in which those norms enact an ideal moral relationship. T. M. Scanlon argues that this approach can yield an account of the distinctive force of morality and an attractive account of moral motivation. We find this approach to theorizing about morals
Barry Maguire, Oded Na'aman
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