81st Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference: Tensioning the Enlightenment: Hope and Skepticism in Locke’s Essay and Conduct

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Tensioning the Enlightenment: Hope and Skepticism in Locke’s Essay and Conduct

In Event: Political Epistemology in Locke, Descartes, and Plato

Sat, April 6, 8:00 to 9:30am CDT (8:00 to 9:30am CDT), TBA

Brief Overview

This paper focuses on a certain tension in Locke’s political philosophy: to what extent is it possible to make progress in knowledge and truth if what we are most concerned to know is accessible to us only through ideas constructed by ourselves?

Author

Jack Clinton Byham, Texas A & M International University