Book Reviews by Keith Allen
Perception and Basic Beliefs: Zombies, Modules, and the Problem of the External World * By JACK C. LYONS
Analysis, 2010
Jon Stewart, The Unity of Content and Form in Philosophical Writing: The Perils of Conformity
Jack Lyons, Perception and Basic Beliefs
Analysis, 2010
European Journal of Philosophy, 2012
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Metascience, 2013
A. J. Pyle’s Locke is an excellent introduction to Locke’s philosophical thought as a whole. The ... more A. J. Pyle’s Locke is an excellent introduction to Locke’s philosophical thought as a whole. The guiding principle of the book is that Locke’s diverse philosophical writings on epistemology, metaphysics, religion, politics, and education are all unified by the basic thesis that ‘we humans have been given enough knowledge for our needs’ (3). Considering an impressive range of issues and texts, Pyle presents Locke as a deeply systematic thinker who still has much to say that is of interest to contemporary readers.The book is organised thematically. Chapter 1 provides an engaging account of Locke’s life and times, emphasising the importance of the political and religious context of seventeenth-century Britain to what might seem to modern readers like largely unrelated concerns in epistemology and metaphysics. Chapter 2 introduces Locke’s theory of ideas, his theologically controversial attack on nativism in Book I of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and outlines the broad shape of
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Book Reviews by Keith Allen