Michael Jacovides
Biographic Data
| ID | 974791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Jacovides |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacovides |
| SIGNATURE | JACOVIDES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5440-9782 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hume on the Prospects for a Scientific Psychology
In Section One of an Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume distinguishes between two sorts of writing on human nature: first, one that appeals to common sense to make virtue seem attractive and, second, one that attempts to describe the principles governing the mind. Hume's defence of the second approach is in part a defence of the possibility of scientific psychology. Within the second approach, he distinguishes two parts: first, a descri…
Hume and the rotting turnip
Locke's Touchy Subjects
The two touchy subjects treated in this slim volume are the immateriality of thinking substances and existence after the resurrection. Locke's freethinking friend Anthony Collins informed him in 1704 that he was going to publish a book by Samuel Bold on those topics. Locke replies by observing that the topics are “very touchy at this time” and suggesting that Collins hold off on publishing so that Bold wouldn't be “cripled by those who will be su…
Locke's Metaphysics
Matthew Stuart has written a very good book. In ambition, scope, and attention to text, it most resembles Michael Ayers's Locke: Epistemology and Ontology. Ayers's book is over twenty years old. Stuart's book is a worthy successor, and, in some respects, a worthy replacement.Stuart sets for himself the mission of describing every part of Locke's metaphysics. He isn't especially concerned with placing these doctrines in their scientific or theolog…
Locke and the Visual Array
Hume, Holism, and Miracles; Hume's Abject Failure
Book Review| January 01 2008 Hume, Holism, and Miracles; Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument against Miracles; A Defense of Hume on Miracles David Johnson, Hume, Holism, and Miracles. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002. ix + 106 pp.John Earman, Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument against Miracles. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xi + 217 pp.Robert J. Fogelin, A Defense of Hume on Miracles. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,…
Locke on the Semantics of Secondary Quality Words
Research Article| October 01 2007 Locke on the Semantics of Secondary Quality Words: A Reply to Matthew Stuart Michael Jacovides Michael Jacovides Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (4): 633–645. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2007-016 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Jacovides; Locke on the Semantics of Secondary …
How Is Descartes' Argument Against Scepticism Better Than Putnam's
‘If a person can think of an F, then that person has come into causal contact with an F in the right way’ is a premise in an obvious reconstruction of Putnam's argument that we are not brains in vats. ‘If a person can think of an F, then that person has come into causal contact with an F or with something at least as good as an F’ is the only controversial premise in Descartes' argument for the existence of God. Putnam's principle entails Descart…
Locke’s construction of the idea of power
Locke's Resemblance Theses
Locke asserts that 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. On an unsophisticated way of taking his words, he means that ideas of primary qualities are like the qualities they represent and ideas of secondary qualities are unlike the qualities they represent.2 I will sh…
Locke's Resemblance Theses
Locke asserts that 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. On an unsophisticated way of taking his words, he means that ideas of primary qualities are like the qualities they represent and ideas of secondary qualities are unlike the qualities they represent.2 I will sh…
Locke’s construction of the idea of power
Locke's Resemblance Theses
Locke asserts that 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. On an unsophisticated way of taking his words, he means that ideas of primary qualities are like the qualities they represent and ideas of secondary qualities are unlike the qualities they represent.2 I will sh…
Locke’s construction of the idea of power
Locke on the Semantics of Secondary Quality Words
Research Article| October 01 2007 Locke on the Semantics of Secondary Quality Words: A Reply to Matthew Stuart Michael Jacovides Michael Jacovides Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (4): 633–645. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2007-016 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Jacovides; Locke on the Semantics of Secondary …
How Is Descartes' Argument Against Scepticism Better Than Putnam's
‘If a person can think of an F, then that person has come into causal contact with an F in the right way’ is a premise in an obvious reconstruction of Putnam's argument that we are not brains in vats. ‘If a person can think of an F, then that person has come into causal contact with an F or with something at least as good as an F’ is the only controversial premise in Descartes' argument for the existence of God. Putnam's principle entails Descart…
Hume, Holism, and Miracles; Hume's Abject Failure
Book Review| January 01 2008 Hume, Holism, and Miracles; Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument against Miracles; A Defense of Hume on Miracles David Johnson, Hume, Holism, and Miracles. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002. ix + 106 pp.John Earman, Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument against Miracles. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xi + 217 pp.Robert J. Fogelin, A Defense of Hume on Miracles. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,…
Locke and the Visual Array
Locke's Metaphysics
Matthew Stuart has written a very good book. In ambition, scope, and attention to text, it most resembles Michael Ayers's Locke: Epistemology and Ontology. Ayers's book is over twenty years old. Stuart's book is a worthy successor, and, in some respects, a worthy replacement.Stuart sets for himself the mission of describing every part of Locke's metaphysics. He isn't especially concerned with placing these doctrines in their scientific or theolog…
Locke's Touchy Subjects
The two touchy subjects treated in this slim volume are the immateriality of thinking substances and existence after the resurrection. Locke's freethinking friend Anthony Collins informed him in 1704 that he was going to publish a book by Samuel Bold on those topics. Locke replies by observing that the topics are “very touchy at this time” and suggesting that Collins hold off on publishing so that Bold wouldn't be “cripled by those who will be su…
Hume and the rotting turnip
Hume on the Prospects for a Scientific Psychology
In Section One of an Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume distinguishes between two sorts of writing on human nature: first, one that appeals to common sense to make virtue seem attractive and, second, one that attempts to describe the principles governing the mind. Hume's defence of the second approach is in part a defence of the possibility of scientific psychology. Within the second approach, he distinguishes two parts: first, a descri…
Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (5 works) · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (4 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (3 works) · Citation (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Contemporary philosophy (2 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works)