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Mental Powers in Early Modern Philosophy, Special issue of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 23/3 May 2017 (With A. Marmodoro)

The proposed special issues covers the period seventeenth- and eighteenth century and focuses on the issue of how a sample of influential thinkers of that period conceptualised the human agent’s mental abilities as governing perception, action and moral behaviour. The representative thinkers included in this issue are: Descartes, Cudworth, Locke, Spinoza, Malebranche, Leibniz, Reid, Hume, Rousseau, and Kant. During the period under consideration in this proposed issue there is a great revival of interest in the powers, capacities or faculties of the human mind, leading to innovative accounts which partially ground in a broad sense, modern psychology. Having inherited a general classification of the cognitive and moral powers from late Scholasticism, many authors during the period under consideration were mainly interested in putting them to work, to explain and describe how we think and perceive (rather than the contents of our thoughts and perceptions). Accordingly, the proposed special issue examines several aspects of the mental life, including perception, attention, reflection, imagination, consciousness, conscience, self-knowledge, activity and passivity of thought....Read more
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