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  1. Locke’s Humean Conventionalism. [REVIEW]Schliesser Eric - manuscript
    I show that Locke anticipates key features of Hume’s more celebrated analysis of convention. I do so by developing Lenz’s account of Lockean (linguistic) convention and its normativity as presented in Socializing Minds. Locke’s account of linguistic convention shares structural features also visible in Locke’s treatment of the convention money and property. I show that Locke’s ‘Humean’ account of convention responds to a lacuna in Pufendorf’s treatment of linguistic convention that Lenz argues is significant to Locke.
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  2. Semiotics and Knowledge in John Locke.Ionel BuȘe - forthcoming - Annals of the University of Craiova, Series: Philosophy:39-49.
  3. Locke’s Humean conventionalism.Eric Schliesser - forthcoming - British Journal for the History of Philosophy:1-10.
    This paper shows that Locke anticipates key features of Hume's more celebrated analysis of convention. It does so by developing Lenz's account of Lockean (linguistic) convention and its normativity, as presented in Socializing Minds. Locke's account of linguistic convention shares structural features also visible in Locke's treatment of the convention of money and property. The paper shows that Locke's ‘Humean' account of convention responds to a lacuna in Pufendorf’s treatment of linguistic convention that Lenz argues is significant to Locke.
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  4. Divine intersubjectivity? On Lenz on Locke.Kathryn Tabb - forthcoming - British Journal for the History of Philosophy:1-9.
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  5. Locke on Fixing Ideas.David Https://Orcidorg Wörner - 2021 - Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 103 (3):481-500.
    I argue that Locke’s distinction between ‘determined’ and ‘undetermined’ ideas incorporates an account of semantic indeterminacy: if the complex idea to which a general term is annexed is ‘undetermined’, the term lacks a determinate extension. I propose that a closer look at this account of semantic indeterminacy illuminates various charges of confusion, misuse and abuse of language Locke levels against his philosophical contemporaries.
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  6. A Critical Introduction to the Philosophy of Language: Central Themes From Locke to Wittgenstein.John Fennell - 2019 - New York: Routledge.
    A Critical Introduction to Philosophy of Language is a historically oriented introduction to the central themes in philosophy of language. Its narrative arc covers Locke's 'idea' theory, Mill's empiricist account of math and logic, Frege and Russell's development of modern logic and its subsequent deployment in their pioneering program of 'logical analysis', Ayer and Carnap's logical positivism, Quine's critique of logical positivism and elaboration of a naturalist-behaviorist approach to meaning, and later-Wittgenstein's 'ordinary language philosophy'-inspired rejection of the project of logical (...)
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  7. Locke and Leibniz on judgment: the first-person perspective and the danger of psychologism.Maria van der Schaar - 2019 - In Brian Andrew Ball & Christoph Schuringa (eds.), The Act and Object of Judgment: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives. Routledge.
  8. Locke on Language, Meaning and Communication.Alexiadou Anastasia-Sofia - 2018 - Philosophical Inquiry 42 (3-4):159-166.
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  9. Cartesian Logic and Locke’s Critique of Maxims.Andreas Blank - 2018 - In Martine Pécharman Philippe Hamou (ed.), Locke and Cartesian Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 186–204.
  10. Locke and port-royal on affirmation, negation, and other postures of the mind.Laurent Jaffro - 2018 - In Philippe Hamou & Martine Pécharman (eds.), Locke and Cartesian Philosophy. Oxford University Press.
  11. Wiele twarzy konceptualizmu.Piotr Kozak - 2018 - Diametros 57:88-100.
  12. Locke on the prospects for secret reference.Terence Moore - 2018 - Think 17 (48):85-90.
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  13. Philosophy of Language.Walter Ott - 2018 - In Dan Kaufman (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth Century Philosophy. London: Routledge. pp. 354-382.
    How language works — its functions, mechanisms, and limitations — matters to the early moderns as much as it does to contemporary philosophers. Many of the moderns make reflection on language central to their philosophical projects, both as a tool for explaining human cognition and as a weapon to be used against competing views. Even in philosophers for whom language is less central, we can find important connections between their views on language and their other philosophical commitments.
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  14. John Locke’ta Sözcüklerin Kurulumundan Toplumun Kurulumuna Uzlaşım Unsurunun Rolü.Pınar Türkmen Birlik - 2017 - Kilikya Felsefe Dergisi / Cilicia Journal of Philosophy 4 (2):69-95.
    Locke’un dile ilişkin düşüncelerinin en ayırt edici yönü uzlaşımsallıktır. Locke’un dil anlayışında sözcükler ile ideler arasındaki bağlantının bir parçası olarak ortaya çıkan uzlaşımsallık unsuru, Locke’un sağın bilgiye erişmedeki amacında ilk elde her ne kadar dildeki bir yetersizlik olarak ortaya konmuş da olsa, gerek yine de bu imkana yaklaşmayı sağlayacak tek unsur olarak düşünülmesi, gerekse de iletişimin imkanını sağlamasıyla ön plana çıkmaktadır. Öyle ki, Locke’ta hakikat olsun, bilgi olsun, anlam olsun gerçek varoluşun bir iz düşümünü veren gösterilenlerde bulunduğu kadar, iletişimin birliğinde (...)
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  15. John Locke: philosophie du langage: termes, concepts et théorie.Saloua Aziz Ouazzani - 2016 - Tétouan: Publications Tétouan Asmir.
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  16. Locke's error?Terence Moore - 2015 - Think 14 (39):77-85.
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  17. John Locke on Inference and Fallacy, A Re-Appraisal.Mark Garrett Longaker - 2014 - Informal Logic 34 (4):364-392.
    John Locke, long associated with the “standard” approach to fallacies and the “logical” approach to valid inference, had both logical and dialectical reasons for favoring certain proofs and denigrating others. While the logical approach to argumentation stands forth in Locke’s philosophical writings, a dialectical approach can be found in his contributions to public controversies regarding religion and toleration. Understanding Locke’s dialectical approach to argumentation not only makes his work more relevant to the contemporary discipline of informal logic, but this understanding (...)
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  18. Sobre conocimiento y significado en el Essay de John Locke.Giannina Burlando Bravo - 2013 - Veritas: Revista de Filosofía y Teología 29:119-137.
  19. John Locke's Essay on Knowledge and Meaning.Giannina Burlando - 2013 - Veritas: Revista de Filosofía y Teología 29:119-137.
    Al final del Libro II del An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke manifiesta que «hay una relación tan íntima entre las ideas y las palabras […] que es imposible hablar clara y distintamente de nuestro conocimiento, que consiste completamente en proposiciones, sin considerar, primero, la naturaleza, uso y significación del lenguaje». De varias y diversas maneras Locke insiste en la tesis que ‘las palabras significan ideas’. En este ensayo me propongo: 1º resumir la teoría general del lenguaje de Locke; 2º (...)
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  20. Sobre conocimiento y significado en el Essay de John Locke.Giannina Burlando - 2013 - Veritas: Revista de Filosofía y Teología 29:119-137.
    Al final del Libro II del An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke manifiesta que «hay una relación tan íntima entre las ideas y las palabras […] que es imposible hablar clara y distintamente de nuestro conocimiento, que consiste completamente en proposiciones, sin considerar, primero, la naturaleza, uso y significación del lenguaje». De varias y diversas maneras Locke insiste en la tesis que ‘las palabras significan ideas’. En este ensayo me propongo: 1º resumir la teoría general del lenguaje de Locke; 2º (...)
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  21. Sobre conocimiento y significado en el Essay de John Locke.Giannina Burlando - 2013 - Veritas: Revista de Filosofía y Teología 29:119-137.
  22. Lenz on Locke on Language. [REVIEW]Michael Losonsky - 2013 - Historiographia Linguistica 40:477-487.
    Review article of Martin Lenz, Locke's Sprachkonzeption, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010.
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  23. Locke's second ‘secret reference’.Terence Moore - 2013 - Think 12 (33):25-35.
    ExtractLocke's analysis of the origins of meaning is clear, coherent, cogent and devastating to our commonsense beliefs. His analysis establishes that in the last resort the meaning, he would say ‘Signification’, of words is ineluctably private, subjective, personal. Where meanings are concerned we are, Locke judged, irremediably solipsistic. ‘Words’, he notes, ‘in their primary or immediate Signification stand for nothing but Ideas in the Mind of him that uses them.’Send article to KindleTo send this article to your Kindle, first ensure (...)
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  24. Tres teorías de la referencia liñgüística : Locke, Kripke y Putnam.Luis Fernández Moreno - 2013 - In David Pérez Chico (ed.), Perspectivas en la filosofía del lenguaje. Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza.
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  25. The Arbitrariness of the Linguistic Sign: Variations on an Enlightenment Theme.Avi Lifschitz - 2012 - Journal of the History of Ideas 73 (4):537-557.
    From the late seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth, an important shift occurred in attitudes to the arbitrariness of the first human words. While authors such as Locke and Pufendorf emphasized linguistic arbitrariness and human liberty, mid-eighteenth-century thinkers highlighted the natural aspects of language and the limited scope of freedom and reason. This change is linked to the contemporary view of the cultural world as a natural artifice, strongly molded by social and environmental factors. The article highlights hitherto (...)
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  26. John Locke & Natural Philosophy (review).Antonia LoLordo - 2012 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 50 (2):296-297.
  27. Locke on Language, Meaning and Communication.Alexiadou Anastasia-Sofia - 2011 - Philosophical Inquiry 35 (3-4):72-79.
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  28. Words and Images: An Essay on the Origin of Ideas.Christopher Gauker - 2011 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    At least since Locke, philosophers and psychologists have usually held that concepts arise out of sensory perceptions, thoughts are built from concepts, and language enables speakers to convey their thoughts to hearers. Christopher Gauker holds that this tradition is mistaken about both concepts and language. The mind cannot abstract the building blocks of thoughts from perceptual representations. More generally, we have no account of the origin of concepts that grants them the requisite independence from language. Gauker's alternative is to show (...)
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  29. Language, mind, and nature: Artificial languages in England from Bacon to Locke (review).Susanna Goodin - 2011 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 49 (2):252-253.
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  30. Locke y Putnam sobre la referencia (Locke and Putnam on Reference).Luis Fernández Moreno - 2010 - Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 25 (1):21-36.
    RESUMEN: La teoría causal formulada por Kripke y Putnam es la teoría semántica dominante de los términos de género natural y, en especial, de los términos de sustancia. La teoría semántica de los términos de sustancia de Locke ha sido, supuestamente, refutada por aquélla. Según Putnam, la teoría de Locke ha pasado por alto dos importantes contribuciones a la semántica, y principalmente a la referencia, de los términos de sustancia, a saber, la contribución de la sociedad y la del entorno. (...)
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  31. Language, Mind, and Nature: Artificial Languages in England from Bacon to Locke. [REVIEW]Matthew Jones - 2009 - Isis 100:159-160.
  32. Comments on Kenneth P. Winkler’s “Signification, Intention, Projection”.Antonia LoLordo - 2009 - Philosophia 37 (3):503-505.
    These are my comments on Ken Winkler's account of Locke's philosophy of language.
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  33. Comments on Walter Ott’s “What Can Causal Claims Mean?”.Miriam McCormick - 2009 - Philosophia 37 (3):471-473.
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  34. Teaching & learning guide for: Locke on language.Walter Ott - 2009 - Philosophy Compass 4 (5):877-879.
    Although a fascination with language is a familiar feature of 20th-century empiricism, its origins reach back at least to the early modern period empiricists. John Locke offers a detailed (if sometimes puzzling) treatment of language and uses it to illuminate key regions of the philosophical topography, particularly natural kinds and essences. Locke's main conceptual tool for dealing with language is 'signification'. Locke's central linguistic thesis is this: words signify nothing but ideas. This on its face seems absurd. Don't we need (...)
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  35. Representationalism and the Linguistic Question in Early Modern Philosophy.Yang Dachun & Cui Zengbao - 2008 - Frontiers of Philosophy in China 3 (4):595 - 606.
    The view of language is greatly changed from early modern philosophy to later modern philosophy and to postmodern philosophy. The linguistic question in early modern philosophy, which is characterized by rationalism and empiricism, is discussed in this paper. Linguistic phenomena are not at the center of philosophical reflections in early modern philosophy. The subject of consciousness is at the center of the philosophy, which makes language serve purely as an instrument for representing thoughts. Locke, Leibniz and Descartes consider language from (...)
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  36. Locke, language, and early-modern philosophy (review). [REVIEW]Benjamin Hill - 2008 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 47 (1):pp. 143-145.
    With the publication of Walter Ott’s Locke’s Philosophy of Language and Michael Losonsky’s Linguistic Turns in Modern Philosophy, serious scholarly attention has returned to Locke’s philosophy of language. In this exhaustively-researched book, Hannah Dawson presents a dark vision of language and the desperate seventeenth-century struggles against it, culminating in Locke’s complete and catastrophic capitulation. She argues that the dominant issue is something called “the problem of language in philosophy.” Seventeenth-century philosophers started seeing the language they used in philosophy as unstable (...)
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  37. Locke's desire.Jonathan Brody Kramnick - 2008 - In Alexander John Dick & Christina Lupton (eds.), Theory and Practice in the Eighteenth Century: Writing Between Philosophy and Literature. Pickering & Chatto.
  38. Locke on language.Walter Ott - 2008 - Philosophy Compass 3 (2):291–300.
    This article canvases the main areas of controversy: the nature of Lockean signification and his position on propositions and particles.
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  39. 8. Sprachanalytisches Argumentieren bei John Locke.Rolf W. Puster - 2008 - In Udo Thiel (ed.), John Locke: Essay Über den Menschlichen Verstand. Akademie Verlag. pp. 185-196.
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  40. Hannah Dawson, Locke, Language and Early-Modem Philosophy. [REVIEW]Robert J. Stainton - 2008 - Philosophy in Review 28 (5):326-329.
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  41. Representationalism and the linguistic question in early modern philosophy.Dachun Yang - 2008 - Frontiers of Philosophy in China 3 (4):595-606.
    The view of language is greatly changed from early modern philosophy to later modern philosophy and to postmodern philosophy. The linguistic question in early modern philosophy, which is characterized by rationalism and empiricism, is discussed in this paper. Linguistic phenomena are not at the center of philosophical reflections in early modern philosophy. The subject of consciousness is at the center of the philosophy, which makes language serve purely as an instrument for representing thoughts. Locke, Leibniz and Descartes consider language from (...)
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  42. A ridiculous plan: Locke and the universal language movement.Hannah Dawson - 2007 - Locke Studies 7:137-158.
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  43. Locke, language, and early-modern philosophy.Hannah Dawson - 2007 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    In a powerful and original contribution to the history of ideas, Hannah Dawson explores the intense preoccupation with language in early-modern philosophy, and presents a groundbreaking analysis of John Locke's critique of words. By examining a broad sweep of pedagogical and philosophical material from antiquity to the late seventeenth century, Dr Dawson explains why language caused anxiety in writers such as Montaigne, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Gassendi, Nicole, Pufendorf, Boyle, Malebranche and Locke. Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy demonstrates that new developments (...)
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  44. La prioridad del pensamiento sobre el lenguaje en la filosofía de John Locke.Sonia Lopez Hanna - 2007 - Agora Philosophica 8:27-42.
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  45. Locke on the semantics of secondary quality words: A reply to Matthew Stuart.Michael Jacovides - 2007 - Philosophical Review 116 (4):633-645.
    Philosophical Review, revised April 16, 2007.
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  46. Language, meaning, and mind in Locke's Essay.Michael Losonsky - 2007 - In Lex Newman (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Locke's Essay. New York, USA: Cambridge University Press. pp. 286-312.
    This paper reconsiders and defends the view that Locke's theory of signification is a theory of meaning.
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  47. Review of Hannah Dawson, Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy[REVIEW]Walter Ott - 2007 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (11).
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  48. Locke's Philosophy of Language ‐ By Walter Ott. [REVIEW]Kenneth P. Winkler - 2007 - Philosophical Books 48 (1):76-78.
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  49. Wahrheitsbegriffe von Descartes bis Kant.Michael Albrecht - 2006 - In Jan Szaif & Markus Enders (eds.), Die Geschichte des Philosophischen Begriffs der Wahrheit. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 231--250.
  50. Walter Ott, Locke's Philosophy of Language. [REVIEW]E. J. Ashworth - 2006 - Philosophical Review 115 (4):530-532.
    This book examines John Locke’s claims about the nature and work- ings of language.WalterOtt proposes a new interpretation of Locke’s thesis that words signify ideas in the mind of the speaker, and argues that rather than employing such notions as sense or reference, Locke relies on an ancient tradition that understands signification as reliable indication.He then uses this interpretation to explain crucial areas of Locke’s metaphysics and epistemology, including essence, abstraction, knowledge, and mental representation. His discussion, which is the first (...)
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