Locke’s theory of consciousness is often appropriated as a forerunner of present-day Higher-Order Perception (HOP) theories, but not much is said about it beyond that. We offer an interpretation of Locke’s account of consciousness that portrays it as crucially different from current-day HOP theory, both in detail and in spirit. In this paper, it is argued that there are good historical and phil...

Like many virtuosi in his day, the English philosopher John Locke maintained an active interest in metrology. Yet for Locke, this was no mere hobby: questions concerning measurement were also implicated in his ongoing philosophical project to develop an account of human understanding. This paper follows Locke's treatment of four problems of measurement from the early Drafts A and B of the Essay...

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...

Locke on Perception Michael Jacovides Revised 1/7/2012 For Locke, the first step in an investigation of perception should be reflection: “What Perception is, every one will know better by reflecting on what he does himself, when he sees, hears, feels, etc. or thinks, than by any discourse of mine” (2.9.2). As a second step, I say, we may learn from reading him. Locke’s use of the term ‘percepti...

1 Preparatory Remarks Locke asserts that " the Ideas of primary Qualities of Bodies, are Resemblances of them, and their Patterns do really exist in the Bodies themselves; But the Ideas, produced in us by these Secondary Qualities, have no resemblance of them at all. " 1 On an unsophisticated way of taking his words, he means that ideas of primary qualities are like the qualities they represent...

This document shows the detailed specification of LOCKE coherence protocol for each cache controller, using a table‐based technique [1]. This representation provides clear, concise visual information yet includes sufficient detail (e.g., transient states) arguably lacking in the traditional, graphical form of state diagrams. Table I shows detailed specifications of a L1 cache controller. States...

Locke has a theory about the idea of substance considered as a ‘substratum’ or ‘support’ of qualities.1 It is a strange theory, according to which one part of our conceptual apparatus is both important and disreputable. Nothing else in the writings of any philosopher matches the doubleness of attitude of the passages about substratum in Locke’s Essay. This duplicity has been noted by students o...

This article contains corrections to Rickless’s “Locke on the Probability of Mind’s Immateriality” published in Locke Studies 20 (2020). The original may be found at article’ homepage. Rickless provides a corrigendum his interpretation Nicholas Jolley’s Locke’s Touchy Subjects. editor notes three errata, which have been corrected article.