1st Edition
Condillac and His Reception On the Origin and Nature of Human Abilities
1. Introduction: Condillac and Us Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Anik Waldow
Part 1: Condillac and His Intellectual Context
2. The Materialists (Diderot, La Mettrie, Deschamps) and Condillac’s Theory of Knowledge Guillaume Coissard
3. Condillac and the Molyneux Problem Peter Anstey
4. Reinventing Newtonianism: Hypotheses, Systems and Attraction in Condillac Gianni Paganini
5. Languages of Action, Methodological Signs and Deafness: The Reception of Condillac by the Abbé de L’Épée—or was It the Other Way Around? Marion Chottin
Part 2: Condillac’s Reception in Nineteenth-Century France
6. Condillac Restored: The Paradox of Attention in Pierre Laromiguière’s Lessons on Philosophy (1815) Pierre Brouillet
7. Madness and Ideologist Philosophy of the Mind: Pinel and Condillac on the Dualism of Understanding and Will Samuel Lézé
8. “The Only, the True French Metaphysician of the Eighteenth Century:” Condillac, Cousin and the “French School” Delphine Antoine-Mahut
9. Condillac’s Puerile Reveries: The Reception of Condillac in Phrenology and in the Philosophy of Auguste Comte Laurent Clauzade
Part 3: Condillac’s Influence Beyond France
10. Between Debate and Reception: Formey Reads Condillac Angela Ferraro
11. Rethinking the Human Animal with Condillac and Herder Anik Waldow
12. The Reception of Condillac in Argentina: From the Nineteenth-Century Professors of idéologie to José Ingenieros Silvia Manzo
Part 4: Contemporary Receptions
13. Time, Order and the Human Interior: Paths towards Condillac Christopher Goodey
14. Representations of the Body and Self-Knowledge: Condillac’s Treatise on Sensations and Contemporary Naturalistic Psychology Aliènor Bertrand
15. Reductions and Radicalisation of Reductions: Condillac, Michel Henry and Maine de Biran Anne Devarieux
Biography
Delphine Antoine-Mahut is Professor of Philosophy at the ENS de Lyon. She has widely published on Cartesianism, its historiography and its various receptions. Among other collective works, she co-directed The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism with Steven Nadler and Tad Schmaltz (2019). Her last book was L’autorité d’un canon philosophique. Le cas Descartes (2021).
Anik Waldow is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney and specialises in early modern philosophy. She is the author of Hume and the Problem of Other Minds (2009) and Experience Embodied: Early Modern Accounts of the Human Place in Nature (2020).
