Talk:William Molyneux

Woollen Bill

Here is some background information that can be incorporated into the article:

Sabine Baltes, p. 60: "The most lasting influential among the pamphleteers in the controversy over the Woollen Bill expanded the economic case to what was to become the classic statement of Irish constitutional liberty: William Molyneux... It was through his friendship with Locke, who was at the time a member of the English Board of Trade, that Molyneux became involved in the dispute around the Woollen Bill, when Locke acquainted him with the English Parliament's move for restrictive legislation against the Irish wool trade. Molyneux not only realized that 'England most certainly will never let us thrive by the Woollen trade, This is their Darling Mistr[ess], and they are jealous of any Rival,' but influenced by Locke's philosophical treatises on the nature of ogvernment, this English interference in Irish affairs also prompted him to reflect on its constitutional implications in a treatise entitled The Case of Ireland Being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated, which was published in Dublin in April 1698."

p. 68, note 137: "Molyneux had revealed Locke's authorship of the Two Treatises of Government in the Case, which Locke had been at pains to conceal."

Baltes, Sabine. The Pamphlet Controversy about Wood's Halfpence (1722-25) and the Tradition of Irish Constitutional Nationalism. New York: Peter Lang, 2002.

Missing reference

I don't know how to edit a Wikipedia article but for the missing reference about the current interest in Molyneux's problem, I suggest:

Held, R., Ostrovsky, Y., de Gelder, B., Gandhi, T., Mathur, U., and Sinha, P. (2011). The newly sighted fail to match seen with felt. Nature Neuroscience, 14, 551–553. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.128.174.67 (talk) 21:03, 18 October 2011 (UTC)