O presente texto tem por objetivo construir um diálogo entre o pensamento liberal do autor inglês John Locke (1632-1704) e suas contribuições para a concepção educacional da época. Consensualmente citado como “pai liberalismo”, sagrou-se estudioso de diversos campos conhecimento humano, político, social educacional. Para além pensador, participou ativamente dos conflitos políticos seu país, con...

Can we know that nothing is in itself both thinking and spatially extended?1 This was among the most central and divisive philosophical issues of the early modern period, one with obvious relevance not only to the theoretical understanding of mind and matter, but also to the practical prospects for immortality and, with it, divine sanctions for morality. While many important philosophers—includ...

It is as undeniable as it is unhelpful to say that for Locke personal identity consists in the identity of consciousness. It is undeniable because he just comes out and says as much in passages like the following: “[T]he same consciousness being preserv’d. . .the personal Identity is preserv’d.” (II.xxvii.13)1 It is unhelpful, however, for two reasons: First, it is unclear what consciousness is...

Submitted: 21 July 2014 Accepted: 9 November 2014 doi:10.1111/zsc.12096 Locke S.A., Caffara M., Marcogliese D.J., Fioravanti M.L. (2015). A large-scale molecular survey of Clinostomum (Digenea, Clinostomidae). —Zoologica Scripta, 44, 203–217. Members of the genus Clinostomum Leidy, 1856 are parasites that mature in birds, with occasional reports in humans. Because morphological characters for r...