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LOCATION:Université de Montréal - 2910\, boul. Édouard-Montpetit\, 2910\
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SUMMARY:Peter McLaughlin - An Architectonic Reading of Locke on Identity
DESCRIPTION:Avec Peter McLaughlin\, Département de philosophie\, Ruprecht
 -Karls-Universität Heidelberg.Cette conférence est présentée par le D
 épartement de philosophie de l'Université de Montréal.Veuillez noter q
 ue la conférence sera prononcée en anglais.Résumé : John Locke’s cha
 pter on identity from the Essay concerning Human Understanding discusses t
 he identity of minds\, bodies\, organisms and especially persons. Some com
 plain about the neglect of artifacts\, islands\, stones\, and other releva
 nt sortals. Most readers also openly (or in spite of themselves) take pers
 ons to be substances of some kind. I offer a different reading of Locke’
 s chapter by taking seriously the second-order reading instructions that h
 e offers there. Locke’s ontology condones three kinds of “things”: s
 ubstances\, modes and relations. There are thus three and only three diffe
 rent ways in which a “thing” might be identical to itself: same substa
 nce\, same mode\, same relation. A proper name (or deictic gesture) may re
 fer either to a substance\, a mode or a relation. This reading requires th
 at we interpret organisms as modes and persons as relations. Locke illustr
 ates (non-trivial) substantial identity on the example of an atomistic ver
 sion of Descartes’ wax\, modal identity on the example of life\, relatio
 nal identity on the example of personality. In this talk I push this readi
 ng to the hilt and draw the consequences.
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