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The Later Development of Lockean Abstraction
Locke Studies, 2014 Discussions of Locke’s theory of abstraction generally confine themselves to the Essay. The only previous paper analysing the developmentofLocke’stheory,bythepresentwriter, dealt solely with drafts of the Essay—Locke’s journals and the three ...
Jonathan Walmsley
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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 on the 'Species' of Substances
Locke Studies, 2014 Locke’s treatment of species has received considerable attention in recent years. It is generally agreed that he rejects species realism—the view that the species of substances exist independently of human thought and language—and defends a modest
Jesse Newton
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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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On the Ethical Thought of John Locke [PDF]
, 1992 One of the main subjects of John Locke's "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" was the investigation of moral principles. But it is said that Locke didn't succeed in establishing the foundation of ethics.
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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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Non‐Naturalist Realism and Quietist Constructivism
Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Metaethical quietists propose views that share all the features of robust non‐naturalist realism, such as a commitment to cognitivism and irreducibly normative truths, except robust realist non‐naturalists' commitment to non‐natural properties.
Rach Cosker‐Rowland
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A Puzzle in the Print History of Locke's Essay
Locke Studies, 2018 In the Epistle to the Reader that prefaces Locke’s Essay he famously declares that he considers himself to be an underlaborer to the great scientific minds of his generation.
Patrick J. Connolly
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