ing out from their participants’ talk, as something essential, and free of history and language, and I will draw on Langford’s work to demonstrate this point. Langford’s data is fascinating and as a discursive theorist, I wanted to take the analysis further and look at her participants’ accounts as particular constructions of events to perform certain interactional business. For example, Rose (...

Resumo: Neste artigo, pretende-se oferecer uma interpretação sobre a explicação da origem ideia (relativa) de substância pura em geral, na filosofia John Locke, partir noção “sugestão natural” Thomas Reid. Para tal, após contextualizar geral para Locke e distingui-la particular (seção 1), explicita-se que as suas palavras fonte (empírica ou racional) segunda mente são ambíguas inconclusivas 2)....

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 79 (1998) 78–97 0031–5621/98/0100–0000 © 1998 University of Southern California and Blackwell Publishers Ltd. Published by Blackwell Publishers, 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA. Abstract: J. L. Mackie’s famous claim that Locke ‘anticipates’ Kripke’s Causal Theory of Reference (CTR) rests, I suggest, upon a pair of im...

Marya Schechtman has argued that contemporary attempts to save Locke’s account of personal identity suffer the same faults that are to be found in Locke, among which is an inability to capture the role our unconscious states play. To avoid these problems, she advocates giving up the mainstream Psychological View and adopting a narrative account like her ‘SelfUnderstanding’ View that, she claims...