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
Christopher P. Noble
Callanan, John J.
Silva, Carmen
Sodano, Joel P.
Toledo Marín, Leonel
Herrera-Balboa, Samuel
Concepts
Philosophy
Psychology
Natural philosophy
Senses and sensation; perception
Philosophy of mind
Soul (philosophy)
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
Early modern
20th century
19th century
Modern
Places
Germany
France
Europe
Great Britain
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