• Acknowledgements


• Preface


• 1: Categories


• 2: Qualities


• 3: Secondary Qualities


• 4: Essence


• 5: Substratum


• 6: Mind and Matter


• 7: Identity


• 8: Persons


• 9: Agency: the First Edition


• 10: Agency: the Revised Account


• Bibliography


• Index

Matthew Stuart is Professor of Philosophy at Bowdoin College. He is the author of several articles on early modern philosophy in journals including Journal of the History of Philosophy, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, and Philosophical Review.

Matthew Stuart offers a fresh interpretation of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, arguing for the work's profound contribution to metaphysics. He presents new readings of Locke's accounts of personal identity and the primary/secondary quality distinction, and explores Locke's case against materialism and his philosophy of action.