2 papers in the library · publishing 2006-2018
July 6, 2018 Rebecca Copenhaver
In the 1600s matters of mind were still matters of soul, and the emerging sciences sought to incorporate the mind into God’s natural order, sometimes quite literally. We find vitalism, panpsychism, non-mechanistic materialism, idealism, and still more positions about the mind and its place in creation for which we have no -isms. Methodologically, natural philosophers sought regularities in...
Philosophy Compass May 1, 2006 Rebecca Copenhaver
Abstract Thomas Reid’s epistemological ambitions are decisively at the center of his work. However, if we take such ambitions to be the whole story, we are apt to overlook the theory of mind that Reid develops and deploys against the theory of ideas. Reid’s philosophy of mind is sophisticated and strikingly contemporary, and has, until recently, been lost in the shadow of his other...