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Mental Powers: From Descartes to Kant book cover

1st Edition

Mental Powers From Descartes to Kant

Edited By Federico Boccaccini, Anna Marmodoro Copyright 2026
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge
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Scholars of the history of philosophy of mind have focused by and large on the early modern critique of the Aristotelian-scholastic theory of vegetative, sensory and intellectual faculties of the soul. While it is true that the early moderns attacked and abandoned the ‘old’ metaphysical conception of soul’s faculties, many thinkers of the period still continued to debate about, for or against, the... Read more

Introduction - Mental Powers. From Descartes to Kant. 

Federico Boccaccini

 

1. Descartes: new thoughts on the senses

Gary Hatfield

 

2. Salving the phenomena of mind: energy, hegemonikon, and sympathy in Cudworth

Sarah Hutton


3. Locke on attention

Matthew Stuart


4. Consciousness, ideas of ideas and animation in Spinoza’s Ethics

Oberto Marrama


5. Substance and force: or why it matters what we think

Pauline Phemister


6. A powerless conscience: Hume on reflection and acting conscientiously

Lorenzo Greco

 

7. Kant on the spontaneous power of the mind

John J. Callanan


8. Kant on the faculty of apperception
Patricia Kitcher

 

Biography

Federico Boccaccini is Senior Research Fellow of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) at the Department of Philosophy of the Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.

Anna Marmodoro is Leonard and Elizabeth Eslick Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University, USA, and concomitantly Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Durham University, UK.

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