John Locke s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding begins with a clear statement of an epistemological goal: to explain the limits of human knowledge, opinion, and ignorance. The actual text of the Essay, in stark contrast, takes a long and seemingly meandering path before returning to that goal at the Essay s end one with many detours through questions in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and philosophy of language. Over time, Locke scholarship has come to focus on Locke s contributions to these parts of philosophy. In Locke s Science of Knowledge, Priselac...
John Locke s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding begins with a clear statement of an epistemological goal: to explain the limits of huma...