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Text:John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, edited by Peter Nidditch. Oxford, 1979. ISBN: 9780198245957 TOPICS 1. In terms of the example of an ordinary apple and its various properties, explain as clearly as you can Lockes distinction between primary and secondary qualities. (For example: Are its primary and secondary qualities completely unrelated? Etc.) Using this same example to illustrate, explain the type of considerations Locke appeals to in motivating and clarifying the distinction between primary and secondary qualities. (That is, explain why Locke thought that there was such a distinction, and why he drew it as he did.) Do you think that Lockes distinction is satisfactory, and that the considerations used in motivating it are compelling? Explain, giving reasons for what you say.
2. According to Locke, when we are born the mind is white Paper, void of all Characters, without any Ideas (Locke, p. 104) experience is needed to furnish the mind with ideas. What is experience, according to Locke? In what sense is it correct/incorrect to say that all of our ideas come from experience? Does experience itself ever acquaint us with anything other than particulars (particular things, properties, and processes)? Explain. Using your own examples to illustrate, explain Lockes account of our capacity for having general thoughts — that is, our ability to think about a type of thing (/property/process) and how this relates to his views on language. Do you think this account is satisfactory? Explain, giving reasons for what you say.
3. Locke talks about substances (with an s) and our thoughts about them, but he also speaks of our idea/notion of substance in general. Using your own example(s) to illustrate, explain Lockes view of our thoughts of individual substances, of substance in general, and of the way in which (according to Locke) the two are connected. Is substance just Lockes term for matter? Might substance be composed of atoms, or some smaller kind of thing? Can you see any tension between Lockes views here and his belief that all ideas derive, ultimately, from experience? Explain, giving reasons for what you say.
4. A teleporter is invented. According to its creators, it can send you anywhere you want to go. When you go in, your body is destroyed, and a new (duplicate) body is created at your destination. All of your knowledge, thoughts, and memories are copied, transferred, and downloaded into your new body. The whole process takes less than a second. Are the people who appear at the other end of the teleporter the same people who went in? What would Locke say? Clearly explain his account of personal identity and how it would apply to this case. Would you get into the teleporter? Why/why not? However you answer, make it clear what you think both the greatest strength and the greatest weakness of Lockes account is. Be sure to give reasons for what you say.
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