Understanding Misunderstanding: Locke Holds the Key

Contents

Introduction

Conversation 1  Secret Reference: Locke’s key to meaning

Conversation 2  Locke’s Second Secret Reference

Conversation 3  Locke: an Empiricist?

Conversation 4  Locke’s belief: ‘Morality is Demonstrable’

Conversation 5  The Pursuit of Happiness: Locke and Moore at odds

Conversation 6  An Untenable Dualism

Conversation 7  Locke’s Parrot: What ‘puts a perfect distinction between Man and Brutes?’

Conversation 8  Orwell’s Problem

Conversation 9  John Locke and Damaris Masham, née Cudworth: Questions of influence

Conversation 10  Exploring with Locke the Origins of Language

Epilogue