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John Locke
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Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 13, 2017 7 facts
claimJohn Locke considers the capacity for self-conscious thinking to be a necessary condition of personhood.
claimThe 'Heidelberg School' interprets Johann Gottlieb Fichte as claiming that previous accounts of self-consciousness by René Descartes, John Locke, and Immanuel Kant are 'reflective' because they regard the self as an object rather than a subject.
claimJohn Locke discusses human understanding in his 1700 work 'An Essay Concerning Human Understanding'.
referenceShelley Weinberg analyzed John Locke's views on personal identity in her 2011 article 'Locke on Personal Identity' published in Philosophy Compass.
claimJohn Locke's account of personal identity relies on the capacity to reidentify oneself at different times, which is linked to the central role of memory.
referenceGalen Strawson analyzed John Locke's views on personal identity, consciousness, and concernment in the 2011 book 'Locke on Personal Identity: Consciousness and Concernment'.
claimJohn Locke argued that humans possess an intuitive knowledge of their own existence, claiming that in every act of sensation, reasoning, or thinking, individuals are conscious of their own being.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Jun 18, 2004 5 facts
quoteJohn Locke wrote in An Essay on Human Understanding (1688): "I do not say there is no soul in man because he is not sensible of it in his sleep. But I do say he can not think at any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it. Our being sensible of it is not necessary to anything but our thoughts, and to them it is and to them it always will be necessary."
claimJohn Locke (1688) argued that understanding consciousness requires special forms of knowing and access from an internal point of view.
perspectiveJohn Locke avoided making hypotheses regarding the substantial basis of consciousness and its relationship to matter, though he considered consciousness essential to both thought and personal identity.
claimJohn Locke argued in An Essay on Human Understanding (1688) that humans cannot think at any time, whether waking or sleeping, without being sensible of that thought.
referenceAssociationist psychology, as pursued by John Locke, David Hume (1739), and James Mill (1829), aimed to discover the principles by which conscious thoughts or ideas interact with or affect one another.
Self-Consciousness - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science oecs.mit.edu Jul 24, 2024 4 facts
quoteJohn Locke wrote: “Thus the Limbs of his Body is to every one a part of himself: He sympathizes and is concerned for them. Cut off an hand, and thereby separate it from that consciousness, we had of its Heat, Cold, and other Affections: and it is then no longer a part of that which is himself, any more than the remotest part of Matter.”
claimJohn Locke (1632–1704) defined selfhood in terms of self-consciousness and extended the boundaries of selfhood to include the body.
quoteJohn Locke defined a person as "a thinking intelligent Being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider it self as it self, the same thinking thing in different times and places."
claimJohn Locke proposed that the human sense of self is not purely psychological, but extends to include the embodied capacity to feel sensations and other affective and homeostatic states.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 3 facts
claimRené Descartes and John Locke lumped sensory and intellectual contents of inner experience together, creating the modern use of the term 'idea' as an inner representation before the mind's eye, which made epistemology the central question of modern philosophy.
claimThe mind-body problem became the central question of epistemology and modern philosophy due to the problematization of the mind and its relation to reality by René Descartes, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, and Immanuel Kant.
claimJohn Locke and Robert Boyle propagated physicalist models of the mind.
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
referenceJohn Locke wrote about consciousness in his 1722 work, 'The works of John Locke: in three volumes'.
claimThinkers who made arguments similar to David Chalmers's formulation of the hard problem include Isaac Newton, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, John Stuart Mill, and Thomas Henry Huxley.
Mind and Consciousness - St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology saet.ac.uk Jun 20, 2024 1 fact
claimSubstance dualism, which recognizes the distinct reality of the soul or mind and the body, has been developed by Clement of Alexandria, Origen of Alexandria, Augustine of Hippo, the Florentine Academy, John Calvin, the Cambridge Platonists, René Descartes, John Locke, Thomas Reid, Richard Swinburne, and Alvin Plantinga.
(PDF) On the function of consciousness - an adaptationist perspective academia.edu 1 fact
claimWestern philosophers have struggled to comprehend the nature of consciousness since the time of Descartes and Locke.
Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org Dec 20, 2023 1 fact
referenceJohn Locke may have first considered the possibility of property dualism by pondering the concept of 'thinking matter' as an alternative to René Descartes' theory of thinking non-material substances.
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimIsaac Newton, John Locke, Gottfried Leibniz, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Henry Huxley, and Wilhelm Wundt all wrote about the seeming incompatibility of third-person functional descriptions of mind and matter and first-person conscious experience.
Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Aug 19, 2003 1 fact
claimJohn Locke, as a moderate empiricist, accepted the existence of both material and immaterial substances.
Attention and consciousness - SelfAwarePatterns selfawarepatterns.com Jun 12, 2022 1 fact
claimRene Descartes, Bishop Berkeley, and John Locke all developed philosophical views on the subject of attention.