Thinking as action: James Frederick Ferrier's Philosophy of Consciousness
Cambridge University Press eBooks July 8, 2010 Adela Pinch
In nineteenth-century Britain, the story of thinking about other people was inseparable from the story of the struggle between the different intellectual disciplines that took thinking about other people as their proper business. The tension between psychology and philosophy – overlapping, but increasingly discrete, disciplines – forms a crucial context for this chapter and the next. This...