Boccaccini, Federico (Author)
Marmodoro, Anna (Author)
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
Volume: 25
Issue: 3
Pages: 435-442
This introduction presents a brief overview of the concept of ‘mental power’ in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and focuses on the issue of how a sample of influential thinkers of that period conceptualized the human agent’s mental abilities and skills as governing perception, action and moral behaviour. This leads to innovative accounts which partially ground, in a broad sense, modern psychology. The representative thinkers included in this special issue are: Descartes, Cudworth, Locke, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume and Kant.
...MoreArticle Patricia Kitcher (2017) Kant on the Faculty of Apperception. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 589-616).
Article John J. Callanan (2017) Kant on the Spontaneous Power of the Mind. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 565-588).
Article Lorenzo Greco (2017) A Powerless Conscience: Hume on Reflection and Acting Conscientiously. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 547-564).
Article Pauline Phemister (2017) Substance and Force: Or Why It Matters What We Think. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 526-546).
Article Oberto Marrama (2017) Consciousness, Ideas of Ideas and Animation in Spinoza’s Ethics. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 506-525).
Article Matthew Stuart (2017) Locke on Attention. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 487-505).
Article Patricia Kitcher (2017) Kant on the Faculty of Apperception. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 589-616).
Article Sarah Hutton (2017) Salving the Phenomena of Mind: Energy, Hegemonikon, and Sympathy in Cudworth. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 465-486).
Article John J. Callanan (2017) Kant on the Spontaneous Power of the Mind. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 565-588).
Article Gary Hatfield (2017) Descartes: New Thoughts on the Senses. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 443-464).
Article Lorenzo Greco (2017) A Powerless Conscience: Hume on Reflection and Acting Conscientiously. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 547-564).
Article Pauline Phemister (2017) Substance and Force: Or Why It Matters What We Think. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 526-546).
Article Oberto Marrama (2017) Consciousness, Ideas of Ideas and Animation in Spinoza’s Ethics. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 506-525).
Article Matthew Stuart (2017) Locke on Attention. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 487-505).
Article Sarah Hutton (2017) Salving the Phenomena of Mind: Energy, Hegemonikon, and Sympathy in Cudworth. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 465-486).
Article Gary Hatfield (2017) Descartes: New Thoughts on the Senses. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 443-464).
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