'The Father of the Experimental Philosophy of the Human Mind' Descartes and the Scottish Enlightenment's Moral Philosophers

Autores
Calvente, Sofía Beatriz
Año de publicación
2022
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Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson and Dugald Stewart were exponents of the experimental philosophy of mind in the Scottish Enlightenment. The unique character of their philosophical project lies in the adoption of the mind-matter dualism as a necessary condition for the study of mental phenomena. This fact led them to recognize the importance of Descartes, both for being the first to clearly delimit the mental and material realms, and for emphasizing the relevance of reflection as an instrument for the study of mind. But at the same time, the Frenchman was also the target of their criticism for dismissing the value of experimentation and appealing to hypotheses to explain natural behaviour. This paper aims to review this group of Scottish philosophers' views concerning philosophy of mind, explaining, at the same time, the reasons for their ambivalent attitude towards Descartes. In order to make sense of this ambivalence, I will argue that it is useful to bear in mind two different aspects of the methodology the Scots put forward to study mental phenomena: firstly, the one between analogy and reflection and secondly, the one between induction and hypothesis making.
Fil: Calvente, Sofía Beatriz. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (UNLP-CONICET); Argentina.
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Journal of Scottish Philosophy, 20(3), 217-235. (2022)
ISSN 1755-2001
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Filosofía
Science of man
Mind-body dualism
Reflection
Analogy
Experimental method
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv 'The Father of the Experimental Philosophy of the Human Mind' Descartes and the Scottish Enlightenment's Moral Philosophers
title 'The Father of the Experimental Philosophy of the Human Mind' Descartes and the Scottish Enlightenment's Moral Philosophers
spellingShingle 'The Father of the Experimental Philosophy of the Human Mind' Descartes and the Scottish Enlightenment's Moral Philosophers
Calvente, Sofía Beatriz
Filosofía
Science of man
Mind-body dualism
Reflection
Analogy
Experimental method
title_short 'The Father of the Experimental Philosophy of the Human Mind' Descartes and the Scottish Enlightenment's Moral Philosophers
title_full 'The Father of the Experimental Philosophy of the Human Mind' Descartes and the Scottish Enlightenment's Moral Philosophers
title_fullStr 'The Father of the Experimental Philosophy of the Human Mind' Descartes and the Scottish Enlightenment's Moral Philosophers
title_full_unstemmed 'The Father of the Experimental Philosophy of the Human Mind' Descartes and the Scottish Enlightenment's Moral Philosophers
title_sort 'The Father of the Experimental Philosophy of the Human Mind' Descartes and the Scottish Enlightenment's Moral Philosophers
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Calvente, Sofía Beatriz
author Calvente, Sofía Beatriz
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Filosofía
Science of man
Mind-body dualism
Reflection
Analogy
Experimental method
topic Filosofía
Science of man
Mind-body dualism
Reflection
Analogy
Experimental method
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson and Dugald Stewart were exponents of the experimental philosophy of mind in the Scottish Enlightenment. The unique character of their philosophical project lies in the adoption of the mind-matter dualism as a necessary condition for the study of mental phenomena. This fact led them to recognize the importance of Descartes, both for being the first to clearly delimit the mental and material realms, and for emphasizing the relevance of reflection as an instrument for the study of mind. But at the same time, the Frenchman was also the target of their criticism for dismissing the value of experimentation and appealing to hypotheses to explain natural behaviour. This paper aims to review this group of Scottish philosophers' views concerning philosophy of mind, explaining, at the same time, the reasons for their ambivalent attitude towards Descartes. In order to make sense of this ambivalence, I will argue that it is useful to bear in mind two different aspects of the methodology the Scots put forward to study mental phenomena: firstly, the one between analogy and reflection and secondly, the one between induction and hypothesis making.
Fil: Calvente, Sofía Beatriz. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (UNLP-CONICET); Argentina.
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