Reseña de Carmen Silva. De la filosofía natural a psicología moral en el Ensayosobre entendimiento humano John Locke. Ciudad México: UniversidadAutónoma México–Universidad Autónoma Aguascalientes,2021, 231pp.

Locke on the Semantics of Secondary-Quality Words: A Reply to Matthew Stuart Michael Jacovides Revised April 16, 2007 Let me first acknowledge the justice of Matthew Stuart’s criticism of my earlier treatment of Locke’s semantics for secondary-quality words and offer a revised account in its place. I’ll then argue that Locke’s thesis that secondary qualities are powers to produce ideas in us is...

In philosophical theory, as well as in common parlance, the words self and person are often used interchangeably, usually, but not always, in an effort to express the same idea. For instance, John Locke, in one of the most consequential discussions relating these terms, declared that: ‘PERSON, as I take it, is the name for . . . self. Wherever a man finds what he calls himself, there, I think, ...

According to Locke, scripture says nothing about the resurrection of same body. We will be resurrected. But in what sense can resurrected Jane “same” as living Jane? Throughout his thinking, Locke holds that sameness body and/or soul are not required for “the Jane.” Sameness person is required. Locke’s theory personal identity was ground-breaking seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It provoki...

In 1945 Vannevar Bush proposed a machine that acted as a “supplement” to memory and met the particular information needs of its user. Because this “memex” recorded “trails” of selected documents, it has been seen as a precursor to hypertext. However, this paper considers Bush in relation to earlier concerns about memory and information, via the ideas of Robert Hooke and John Locke. Whereas Bush...

There is now a large body of evidence suggesting a close interaction between the central nervous system and the immune system. More specifically, immunological abnormalities have been described in relation to psychological stress (Jemrnott and Locke 1984) and in patients with psychiatric illness (DeLisi and Crow 1986). We have earlier reported a decrease in mitogen-induced lymphocyte proliferat...