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1st Edition

Habit and the History of Philosophy

Edited By Jeremy Dunham, Komarine Romdenh-Romluc Copyright 2023
278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge
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For Aristotle, habit was a fundamental aspect of human nature; and for William James, it was the "enormous flywheel" of society. In both the history of philosophy and contemporary research, it is acknowledged as a fundamental topic in ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of action, and phenomenology. This major volume, written by a team of international contributors, is an outstanding... Read more

Introduction Jeremy Dunham and Komarine Romdenh-Romluc

Part 1: Habit and Ancient Philosophy

1. Socrates on Habituation and Politics: Plato’s Gorgias 509c6-510a4 Leo Catana

2. Guided Practice Makes Perfect: Habituation into Full Virtue in Aristotle’s Ethics Karen Margrethe Nielsen

3. Aristotle on the Nature of Ethos and Ethismos Margaret Hampson

4. Making Progress: Epictetus on Habituation John Sellars

Part 2: Habit and Early Modern Philosophy

5. Forming the Habit of Thinking Well: Descartes’s Reshaping of the Act of Reasoning Elodie Cassan

6. Habit in Hartley’s Reconciling Project: Between Christian Morality and the Usual Course of Nature Catherine Dromelet

7. Habit and Will in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy John P. Wright

8. Kant’s Account of Intellectual Habit and Moral Education Carl Hildebrand

Part 3: Habit and Modern Philosophy

9. The Dispositional Account of Habits and Explanation of Moral Action in F.H. Bradley Dina Babushkina

10. Phenomenology as Vocation – A Project Instituted and Habituated by the Will Sara Heinämaa

11. Personal Acts, Habit, and Embodied Agency in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception Justin F. White

12. Deleuze on Habit and Time; or, How to Get, and How Not to Get, from Hume to Bergson Mark Sinclair

Part 4: Contemporary Perspectives on Habit

13. Habit and the Spiritual Life: Perspectives from Christian Mysticism and the Philosophy of Religion Simone Kotva

14. Are Habits Inherited? A Possible Epigenetic Route from Charles Darwin to the Contemporary Debate Mariagrazia Portera and Mauro Mandrioli

15. The Discourse Ecology Model: Changing the World One Habit at a Time Susan Notess

16. Habit and Practice Clare Carlisle

17. Habit-Formation: What’s in a Perspective? Will Hornett

18. Habits in Perception: A Diachronic Defence of Hyperinferentialism Cathy Legg.

Index

Biography

Jeremy Dunham is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Durham, UK. He is a co-author of Idealism: The History of a Philosophy (2014), and with Pauline Phemister, co-editor of Monadologies (Routledge, 2018).

Komarine Romdenh-Romluc is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is the author of the Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Merleau-Ponty and Phenomenology of Perception (2011), and co-edits the book series Routledge Research in Phenomenology.

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