Article ID: CBB647362818

Powers, Abilities and Skills in Early Modern Philosophy (2017)

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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.

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Article Patricia Kitcher (2017) Kant on the Faculty of Apperception. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 589-616). unapi

Article John J. Callanan (2017) Kant on the Spontaneous Power of the Mind. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 565-588). unapi

Article Lorenzo Greco (2017) A Powerless Conscience: Hume on Reflection and Acting Conscientiously. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 547-564). unapi

Article Pauline Phemister (2017) Substance and Force: Or Why It Matters What We Think. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 526-546). unapi

Article Oberto Marrama (2017) Consciousness, Ideas of Ideas and Animation in Spinoza’s Ethics. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 506-525). unapi

Article Matthew Stuart (2017) Locke on Attention. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 487-505). unapi

Article Patricia Kitcher (2017) Kant on the Faculty of Apperception. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 589-616). unapi

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). unapi

Article John J. Callanan (2017) Kant on the Spontaneous Power of the Mind. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 565-588). unapi

Article Gary Hatfield (2017) Descartes: New Thoughts on the Senses. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 443-464). unapi

Article Lorenzo Greco (2017) A Powerless Conscience: Hume on Reflection and Acting Conscientiously. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 547-564). unapi

Article Pauline Phemister (2017) Substance and Force: Or Why It Matters What We Think. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 526-546). unapi

Article Oberto Marrama (2017) Consciousness, Ideas of Ideas and Animation in Spinoza’s Ethics. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 506-525). unapi

Article Matthew Stuart (2017) Locke on Attention. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 487-505). unapi

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). unapi

Article Gary Hatfield (2017) Descartes: New Thoughts on the Senses. British Journal for the History of Philosophy (pp. 443-464). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Boos, Florence S.
Boos, William
Ducheyne, Steffen
Heinämaa, Sara
Huenemann, Charlie
Hutton, Sarah
Journals
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
Asclepio: Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina
Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
Enlightenment and Dissent
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Carocci Editore
University of Pennsylvania
Cambridge University Press
Acumen
de Gruyter
Concepts
Philosophy
Psychology
Philosophy of mind
Senses and sensation; perception
Natural philosophy
Epistemology
People
Locke, John
Descartes, René
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Hume, David
Kant, Immanuel
Spinoza, Baruch
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
Early modern
19th century
20th century
16th century
Places
Great Britain
Europe
France
Germany
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