Topics in Early Modern Philosophy of Mind (Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind, 9)

✍ Scribed by Jon Miller

• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 277
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

During the early modern era (c. 1600-1800), philosophers formulated a number of new questions, methods of investigation, and theories regarding the nature of the mind. The result of their efforts has been described as “the original cognitive revolution”. Topics in Early Modern Philosophy of Mind provides a comprehensive snapshot of this exciting period in the history of thinking about the mind, presenting studies of a wide array of philosophers and topics. Written by some of today’s foremost authorities on early modern philosophy, the ten chapters address issues ranging from those that have long captivated philosophers and psychologists as well as those that have been underexplored. Likewise, the papers engage figures from the history of ideas who are well-known today (Descartes, Hume, Kant) as well as those who have been comparatively neglected by contemporary scholarship (Desgabets, Boyle, Collins). This volume will become an essential reference work that graduate students and professionals in the fields of philosophy of mind, the history of philosophy, and the history of psychology will want to own.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Contributors......Page 8
Introduction......Page 9
Mental Transparency, Direct Sensation, and the Unity of the Cartesian Mind......Page 19
Wonder Among Cartesians and Natural Magicians......Page 56
Desgabets: Rationalist or Cartesian Empiricist?......Page 73
Descartes, Spinoza, and Locke on Extended Thinking Beings......Page 101
Sensation in a Malebranchean Mind......Page 121
Spinoza on Teleology, Value, and the Unity of Mind......Page 146
Spinoza's Eternal Self......Page 165
Can Matter Think? The Mind–Body Problem
in the Clarke–Collins Correspondence......Page 184
Berkeley and Hume on Self and Self-Consciousness......Page 206
Making an Object of Yourself: On the Intentionality of the Passions in Hume......Page 236
Bibliography......Page 254
G......Page 268
R......Page 269
Z......Page 270
C......Page 271
G......Page 272
K......Page 273
M......Page 274
S......Page 275
W......Page 276