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The Functional Versus the Representational Theories of Knowledge in Locke's Essay, Vol. 3: A Dissertation, Submitted to the Faculties of the Graduate ... Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, (Departmen - Softcover
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Explore how knowledge works from Locke to modern epistemology and what makes ideas real and useful.
This dissertation examines long-standing questions about knowledge: how we justify beliefs, what counts as real or fanciful ideas, and how our understanding changes with new evidence and methods. It discusses the tension between practical certainty and ultimate truth, and how theories develop from the lab bench of science into everyday life.
Written with clear language and a focus on the functions of ideas, the work traces the evolution of ideas about simple and complex ideas, essence, and the way we test ideas through experience and action. It connects historical debates to questions still relevant for readers curious about how we know what we know.
- Learn why simple ideas are treated as real because they reliably arise from causes in the world.
- See how the concept of essence shifts from a supposed real core to a mind-made construction serving practical ends.
- Understand how testing ideas through experience shapes our sense of truth and certainty.
- Discover how reconstruction of past experience guides present judgment and future expectancies.
Ideal for readers of philosophy and the history of ideas who want a concise, accessible look at how knowledge theories developed from Locke’s Essay onward.
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