The Cambridge Companion to Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding

List of Contributors ix Note on Texts and Citations xiii Introduction LEX NEWMAN 1 1 The Intellectual Setting and Aims of the Essay 7 G.A.J. ROGERS 2 Locke's Polemic against Nativism 33 SAMUEL C. RICKLESS 3 The Taxonomy of Ideas in Locke's Essay 67 MARTHA BRANDT BOLTON 4 Locke's Distinctions between Primary and Secondary Qualities 101 MICHAEL JACOVIDES 5 Power in Locke's Essay 130 VERE CHAPPELL 6 Locke on Substance 157 EDWIN MCCANN 7 Locke on Ideas of Identity and Diversity 192 GIDEON YAFFE 8 Locke on Ideas and Representation 231 THOMAS M. LENNON 9 Locke on Essences and Classification 258 MARGARET ATHERTON 10 Language, Meaning, and Mind in Locke's Essay 286 MICHAEL LOSONSKY 11 Locke on Knowledge 313 LEX NEWMAN 12 Locke's Ontology 352 LISA DOWNING 13 The Moral Epistemology of Locke's Essay 381 CATHERINE WILSON 14 Locke on Judgment 406 DAVID OWEN 15 Locke on Faith and Reason 436 NICHOLAS JOLLEY Bibliography 456 Index of Names and Subjects 473 Index of Passages Cited 479