Biographical sketch of Dr. John Locke

John Locke on Respiration

During the early part of his career as an academic in 1660s Oxford, John Locke trained as a physician. Acquainted with some of the most brilliant researchers of his day— Robert Boyle, Thomas Willis, Richard Lower and Robert Hooke—and an active member of the scientific community, Locke was part of a generation that revolutionized natural philosophy. He never published a natural philosophical wor...

A biographical sketch of

Walter Erwin Diewert began life in the winter of 1941 in Vancouver, British Columbia. He completed a B.A. degree in 1963, and an M.A. in mathematics in 1964, both at the University of British Columbia. He completed a Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley in 1968. He is currently a full professor at the University of British Columbia, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1...

John Locke and Modern Life

Chapter 15 John Locke : Theory of knowledge

In the previous chapter we have outlined some fundamental doctrines of Locke’s empiricism. We have examined his concepts of simple and complex ideas which are the archetypes of knowledge according to empiricist epistemology. The ideas of substances, modes and relations are the three types of complex ideas our mind forms by combining the simple ideas received from multiple sources. Before we pro...

Albrecht Kossel, A Biographical Sketch **

Modern knowledge of protein chemistry rests firmly on a number of fundamental discoveries extending back to the time of Beccarius and Scheele. Although it has been two hundred and twenty years since Beccarius isolated gluten from wheat, factual knowledge of proteins has accumulated with great rapidity only during the last century. It may be noted that the impetus was not only the increasing gen...