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The Faculties
Author | : Dominik Perler |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2015-05-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780199935260 |
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It seems quite natural to explain the activities of human and non-human animals by referring to their special faculties. Thus, we say that dogs can smell things in their environment because they have perceptual faculties, or that human beings can think because they have rational faculties. But what are faculties? In what sense are they responsible for a wide range of activities? How can they be individuated? How are they interrelated? And why are different types of faculties assigned to different types of living beings? The six chapters in this book discuss these questions, covering a wide period from Plato up to contemporary debates about faculties as modules of the mind. They show that faculties were referred to in different theoretical contexts, but analyzed in radically different ways. Some philosophers, especially Aristotelians, made them the cornerstone of their biological and psychological theories, taking them to be basic powers of living beings. Others took them to be inner causes that literally produce activities, while still others provided a purely functional explanation. The chapters focus on various models, taking into account Greek, Arabic, Latin, French, German and Anglo-American debates. They analyze the role assigned to faculties in metaphysics, philosophy of mind and epistemology, but also the attack that was often launched against the assumption that faculties are hidden yet real features of living beings. The short "Reflections" inserted between the chapters make clear that faculties were also widely discussed in literature, science and medicine.
Essays on the Scepticism of the present age the Faculties of the human Soul and on Philosophy and Common Sense Translated from the French by G Ripley
Author | : Théodore Simon JOUFFROY |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1839 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0023371631 |
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Charles Bonnet Analytical Essay on the Faculties of the Soul
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2022-01-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780192662194 |
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In the course of the eighteenth century, understanding human cognitive life came to be construed as something to be explored in terms of the physiology of the sensory organs, the nerves, and the brain: a form of naturalization that effectively moved cognition out of the realm of philosophy as it had traditionally been understood. Bonnet's Analytical Essay on the Faculties of the Soul was at the forefront of these developments, and this is its first English translation. Drawing on his earlier work in natural history—he was the leading entomologist of his era—he approaches problems of the nature of the mind via the physiology and anatomy of the brain and sensory systems. His approach is one of 'reverse engineering', starting from an organic statue without faculties, and investigating how it would need to be modified to produce a human being. Bonnet takes up a position that cuts across the standard understanding of the period as a clash between materialism and dualism. While his approach was rigorously naturalistic and physiological, this did not lead him to reject the notion of a soul. Instead, he argues that, in order to make sense of their sensory abilities, we need to attribute a soul to animals as well as human beings. At the same time, he argues that if personal immortality is to be possible, it can be conceived along the lines of insect metamorphosis, which shows how different biological forms can harbour a single identity.
The Faculties of Birds with Illustrations
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : Birds |
ISBN | : OSU:32435063302152 |
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Register of the Faculties and Students
Author | : Georgetown University |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112067731791 |
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The Bible viewed in its relation to the faculties of the Mind A lecture etc
Author | : Giles HESTER |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1863 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0017135084 |
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A Letter to Henry Cline Esq on Imperfect Developments of the Faculties Mental and Moral
Author | : John Thelwall |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1810 |
Genre | : Elocution |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433066585476 |
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A Catalogue of the Graduates in the Faculties of Arts Divinity and Law of the University of Edinburgh Since Its Foundation
Author | : University of Edinburgh |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1858 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105038764770 |
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