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Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2006 This paper argues that the English philosopher John Locke, who has normally been thought to have had only an amateurish interest in botany, was far more involved in the botanical science of his day than has previously been known. Through the presentation of new evidence deriving from Locke's own herbarium, his manuscript notes, journal and ...
Anstey, P, Harris, S
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To lock or not to lock? Mexico case [PDF]
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2021 In this paper, we analyze some of the policies implemented by Mexico, a country that has not pursued a total lockdown, although it has implemented different partial confinement policies. Such approach to the confinement has been criticized by some authors as morally inappropriate.
Giovanni Perea Tinajero, Agata Bąk
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From Self-government to Right to Revolution (Foundations and Conditions of the Dissolution of Government in John Locke’s Political Theology) [PDF]
دولتپژوهی, 2021 How the government is formed is one of the important themes about the phenomenon of government. Yet more important is the issue of the dissolution of government.
Behnam Medi
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Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, 2022 This paper presents a new and practical approach to lock-free locks based on helping, which allows the user to write code using fine-grained locks, but run it in a lock-free manner. Although lock-free locks have been suggested in the past, they are widely viewed as impractical, have some key limitations, and, as far as we know, have never been ...
Naama Ben-David +2 more
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Relation between Religion and Democracy: A Comparative Study on John Locke and Great Scholar Naini political Thought [PDF]
رهیافتهای سیاسی و بین المللی, 2022 Constitutionalism has been accompanied with bounding the kingship system power by law; it is not important this manner has been happen in England or in Iran, but it is important that despotic authoritarian discourse do support from kingship and be ...
Faramarz Mirzazadeh Ahmadbeyglou
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The Contours of Locke’s General Substance Dualism
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2022 In this paper, I will argue that Locke is a substance dualist in the general sense, in that he holds that there are, independent of our classificatory schema, two distinct kinds of substances: wholly material ones and wholly immaterial ones.
Graham Clay
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Locke’s Knowledge of Ideas: Propositional or By Acquaintance?
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2021 Locke seems to have conflicting commitments: we know individual ideas and all knowledge is propositional. This paper shows the conflict to be only apparent.
Shelley Weinberg
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Shaftesbury on the Beauty of Nature
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2021 Many people today glorify wild nature. This attitude is diametrically opposed to the denigration of wild nature that was common in the seventeenth century.
Michael B. Gill
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Locke on the Probability of the Mind's Immateriality
Locke Studies, 2021 For many years, there has been a vibrant debate about whether Locke is friendly or hostile to the proposition that the mind is a material thing. On the one hand, there are passages in which Locke tells us that it is probable that the mind is immaterial.
Samuel C. Rickless
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From Hobbes and Locke to Machiavelli’s virtù in the political context of meliorism: popular eucosmia and the value of moral memory [PDF]
Polis: Revista de Stiinte Politice, 2021 This study identifies a genealogy between Thomas Hobbes’ theory of absolute government and John Locke’s liberal worldview. It traces the seeds of eighteenth century optimistic liberal ideologies (endorsed by thinkers decisively influenced by Locke ...
Michail THEODOSIADIS
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