Locke on Knowledge, Politics and Religion

Peter R. Anstey is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia. He specialises in early modern philosophy with a particular focus on the philosophy of John Locke. He is author of John Locke and Natural Philosophy (2011) and The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century 2013). He manages the Early Modern Experimental Philosophy blog. Kiyoshi Shimokawa is Professor of Philosophy at Gakushuin University, Japan. He specialises in modern philosophy with a particular reference to the philosophy of John Locke. He is author of John Locke no Jiyushugi Seijitetsugaku (2000) and co-authored several books in English and Japanese, on early modern ethics, natural rights and political philosophy, discussing Locke, Grotius and Hume.

Introduction
Part I: Knowledge and Experimental Method
1. Locke and Non-Propositional Knowledge, Peter R. Anstey (University of Sydney, Australia)
2. Boyle and Locke on Primary and Secondary Qualities: A Reappraisal, Shigeyuki Aoki (Chuo University, Japan)
3. Berkeley’s Experimental Method in An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision, Yasuaki Nakano (Gakushuin University and Keio University, Japan)
Part II: Law and Politics
4. A Defence of Locke’s Consent Theory against Hume’s Critique, Takumichi Kojo (Aichi Gakuin University, Japan)
5. Locke's Political Constitutionalism: A Re-examination of his Idea of the Prerogative, Ryuichi Yamaoka (Open University of Japan, Japan)
6. The Death Penalty and a Lockean Impossibilism, Masaki Ichinose (Musashino University, Japan)
Part III: Religion and Toleration
7. Locke’s Harm Argument and the Largeness of Toleration, Kiyoshi Shimokawa (Gakushuin University, Japan)
8. Salvation and Reasonableness in Locke’s Reasonableness of Christianity, Keisuke Takei (Fukuoka University, Japan)
9. Locke on Sex, Marriage and the State, J.K. Numao (Keio University, Japan)
Bibliography
Index