The Bloomsbury Companion to Locke

John Locke (1632-1704) was a leading seventeenth-century philosopher and widely considered to be the first of the British Empiricists. One of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers, his major works and central ideas have had a significant impact on the development of key areas in political philosophy and epistemology.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Locke is a comprehensive and accessible resource to Locke's life and work, his contemporaries and critics, his key concepts and enduring influence. Including more than 80 specially commissioned entries, written by a team of leading experts, topics range from absolutism to toleration, from education to socinianism. The Companion features a series of indispensable research tools including a chronology of Locke's life, an A-Z of his key concepts and synopses of his principal writings.

This is an essential resource for anyone working in the fields of Locke Studies and Seventeenth-Century Philosophy.

S.-J. Savonius-Wroth is a historian at the University of Helsinki, Finland and is a Research Fellow of the Academy of Finland.

Paul Schuurman is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Jonathan Walmsley has a PhD in Philosophy from King's College London, UK, and has published extensively on Locke's natural philosophy.

Introduction
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Contributors
1. Life
The Life of John Locke – Mark Goldie (University of Cambridge UK)
A Chronology of Locke’s Life – Mark Goldie (University of Cambridge UK)
A Summary Bibliography of Locke’s Works – Mark Goldie (University of Cambridge UK)
2. Sources and Contemporaries
Robert Boyle (1627–91) – James Hill (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
Catherine Cockburn (1679–1749) - Patricia Sheridan (University of Guelph, Canada)
René Descartes (1596–1650) - Paul Schuurman (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Robert Filmer (c. 1588–1653) - Ian Harris (University of Leicester UK)
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) - Jon Parkin (University of York, UK)
Philippus van Limborch (1633–1712) - Luisa Simonutti (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche ISPF-Milano, Italy)
Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715) - Andrew Pyle (University of Bristol, UK)
Damaris Masham (1658–1708) - Sarah Hutton (University of Aberystwyth, UK)
Isaac Newton (1643–1727) - G.A.J. Rogers (Keele University, UK)
The First Earl of Shaftesbury (1621–83) - J.R. Milton (King’s College London, UK)
Thomas Sydenham (1624–89) - Jonathan Walmsley (London, UK)
3. Early Critics
George Berkeley (1685–1753) - Jonathan Walmsley (London, UK)
Thomas Burnet (c.1635–1715) - Laurent Jaffro (Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)
John Edwards (1637–16) - John C. Higgins-Biddle (University of Connecticut School of Medicine, USA)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) - Pauline Phemister (University of Edinburgh, UK)
John Milner (1628–1702) - J.K. Numao (Keio University, Japan)
John Norris (1657–1712) - Paul Schuurman (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Jonas Proast (c.1642–1710) - Jean-Fabien Spitz (Université de Paris 1, France)
John Sergeant (1623–1707) - Jasper Reid (King’s College London, UK)
The Third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713) - J.R. Milton (King’s College London, UK)
Edward Stillingfleet (1635–99) - Neil Fairlamb (The Church in Wales, UK)
Richard Willis (1664–1734) - J.K. Numao (Keio University, Japan)
4. Concepts
Absolutism - Clare Jackson (University of Cambridge, UK)
Abstraction, Universals and Species – Jonathan Walmsley (London, UK)
Ancient Constitutionalism – Clare Jackson (University of Cambridge, UK)
Association of Ideas – John P. Wright (Central Michigan University, USA)
Coinage – Richard Boyd (Georgetown University, Washington, USA)
Consent and Social Contract – R.E.R. Bunce (University of Cambridge, UK)
Curriculum, The – Sorana Corneanu (University of Bucharest, Romania)
Deism – Victor Nuovo (Middlebury College, Vermont, USA)
Education and Its Methods – Sorana Corneanu (University of Bucharest, Romania)
Education and Its Role in Civil Society – S.-J. Savonius-Wroth (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Enthusiasm – Victor Nuovo (Middlebury College, Vermont, USA)
Essences, Real and Nominal – Margaret Atherton (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)
Faculties – Paul Schuurman (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Faith, Reason and Opinion – Benjamin Hill (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Free Will and Volition – Gideon Yaffe (University of Southern California, USA)
God - G.A.J. Rogers (Keele University, UK)
Hedonism – Andrew Starkie (St Gabriel’s, Manchester, UK)
Hypothesis and Analogy – Jonathan Walmsley (London, UK)
Ideas - Keith Allen (University of York, UK)
Innateness – Daniel Carey (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland)
Intuition and Demonstration – Benjamin Hill (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Knowledge - Benjamin Hill (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Logic – Paul Schuurman (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Meaning and Signification – Hannah Dawson (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Modes – Benjamin Hill (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Molyneux Problem, The – Marjolein Degenaar and Gert-Jan Lokhorst (Erasmiaans Gymnasium Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Morality and Its Demonstration – John Colman (University of Tasmania, Australia)
Names – Hannah Dawson (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Natural History – Jonathan Walmsley (London, UK)
Natural Law – Kari Saastamoinen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Number and Infinity – Yasuhiko Tomida (Kyoto University, Japan)
Obligation, Moral – R.E.R. Bunce (University of Cambridge, UK)
Perception – Keith Allen (University of York, UK)
Personal Identity – Udo Thiel (University of Graz, Austria)
Primary and Secondary Qualities – James Hill (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
Property – Koen Stapelbroek (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Rate of Interest – Richard Boyd (Georgetown University, Washington, USA)
Republicanism – Markku Peltonen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Resistance and Revolution – S.-J. Savonius-Wroth (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Scholasticism – James Hill (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
Socinianism – John Marshall (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Space and Time – Benjamin Hill (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
State of Nature, The – Kari Saastamoinen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Substance – Michael Ayers (University of Oxford, UK)
Toleration – Andrew Starkie (St Gabriel’s, Manchester, UK)
Truth and Falsity – Benjamin Hill (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Value and Wealth – Koen Stapelbroek (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Words, Their Imperfections and Abuses – Hannah Dawson (University of Edinburgh, UK)
5. Synopses of Key Writings
An Essay concerning Human Understanding – Jonathan Walmsley (London, UK)
Two Treatises of Government – S.-J. Savonius-Wroth (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Letters concerning Toleration – Timothy Stanton (University of York, UK)
Some Thoughts concerning Education – Sorana Corneanu (University of Bucharest, Romania)
The Reasonableness of Christianity and its Vindications – John C. Higgins-Biddle (University of Connecticut School of Medicine, USA)
Papers on Money – Koen Stapelbroek (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Of the Conduct of the Understanding – Paul Schuurman (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St Paul – Victor Nuovo (Middlebury College, Vermont, USA)
6. Influence
The Influence of Locke’s Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century: Epistemology and Politics – G.A.J. Rogers (Keele University, UK)
The Reception of Locke in England in the Early Eighteenth Century: Metaphysics, Religion and the State - Timothy Stanton (University of York, UK)
Locke’s Civil Philosophy in the Early Eighteenth-century République des Lettres: An Important Footnote – Petter Korkman (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Contemporary Locke Scholarship – Roger Woolhouse and Timothy Stanton (University of York, UK)
Index of Locke’s Works
Index of Names
Index of Topics