Locke's Touchy Subjects: Materialism and Immortality by Nicholas Jolley

Author:Nicholas Jolley
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2016-01-20T16:00:00+00:00

III Superaddition

Locke holds, then, that it is logically possible for matter to think; it is not just epistemically possible that it does. But how should we interpret his language of superaddition? Perhaps the best way of approaching this issue is by means of his implicit, ongoing debate with Descartes: Locke’s position on superaddition seems clearly anti-Cartesian, and it is important to see how. Consider two of Descartes’ metaphysical commitments concerning body or matter:

(1) Extension is the principal attribute of body or matter, which constitutes its essence.

(2) Any (non-miraculous) property of body or matter is either this principal attribute (extension) or a mode of this principal attribute.

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