Ruth Mattern
Biographic Data
| ID | 5967633 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Mattern |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Mattern |
| SIGNATURE | MATTERN R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
New Essays on Human Understanding
Preface Book I: Of innate notions Book II: Of ideas Book III: Of words Book IV: Of knowledge Notes Reference Index
Moral Science and the Concept of Persons in Locke
L ocke's concept of persons in his discussion of personal identity has received a great deal of critical attention. But the chapter on identity was added to the Essay in the Second Edition; it appears to be a digression and an afterthought.1 Locke scholars have generally thought it futile to attempt to make any interesting connections between his concept of persons and the broader epistemological themes of the Essay. Eric Matthews, for example, e…
Malebranche
Reinterpreting Descartes on the Notion of the Union of Mind and Body
Reinterpreting Descartes on the Notion of the Union of Mind and Body JANET BROUGHTON RUTH MATTERN What does IDescartesJ understand, 1 ask, by the union of the mind and the body? What clear and distinct conception has he got of thought in most intimate connection with a certain particle of extended matter.'? Truly 1 should like him to explain his union through its proximate cause. But he had so distinct a conception of mind being distinct from bod…
Leibniz's Moral Philosophy
Leibniz
Moral Science and the Concept of Persons in Locke
L ocke's concept of persons in his discussion of personal identity has received a great deal of critical attention. But the chapter on identity was added to the Essay in the Second Edition; it appears to be a digression and an afterthought.1 Locke scholars have generally thought it futile to attempt to make any interesting connections between his concept of persons and the broader epistemological themes of the Essay. Eric Matthews, for example, e…
Leibniz's Moral Philosophy
Leibniz
Reinterpreting Descartes on the Notion of the Union of Mind and Body
Reinterpreting Descartes on the Notion of the Union of Mind and Body JANET BROUGHTON RUTH MATTERN What does IDescartesJ understand, 1 ask, by the union of the mind and the body? What clear and distinct conception has he got of thought in most intimate connection with a certain particle of extended matter.'? Truly 1 should like him to explain his union through its proximate cause. But he had so distinct a conception of mind being distinct from bod…
Moral Science and the Concept of Persons in Locke
L ocke's concept of persons in his discussion of personal identity has received a great deal of critical attention. But the chapter on identity was added to the Essay in the Second Edition; it appears to be a digression and an afterthought.1 Locke scholars have generally thought it futile to attempt to make any interesting connections between his concept of persons and the broader epistemological themes of the Essay. Eric Matthews, for example, e…
Malebranche
New Essays on Human Understanding
Preface Book I: Of innate notions Book II: Of ideas Book III: Of words Book IV: Of knowledge Notes Reference Index
Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Analytic philosophy (5 works) · Contemporary philosophy (5 works) · General interest (5 works) · Psychology (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (1 work) · Cartesian coordinate system (1 work) · Chaos, Complexity, and Education (1 work)