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Author:   Anik Waldow (Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, University of Sydney)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.644kg
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9780190086114

ISBN 10:   0190086114
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   10 March 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Part I: The Moral Importance of Experience Chapter 1: Experience and Cartesian Agency 1.1 Experiencing and Knowing the Self 1.2 Confused Notions of Body and Mind 1.3 Agency in the Conduct of Life 1.4 Conclusion Chapter 2: Locke's Experiential Persons 2.1 On the Mental and Bodily Dimension of Reward and Punishment 2.2 Habit Training versus Conditioning 2.3 Persons as Agents 2.4 Reason, Reflection and Correction 2.5 Conclusion Part II: On the Continuity between Sensibility and Reason Chapter 3: Moral Reflection as Perception: A Humean Account 3.1 What is Natural about Human Nature? 3.2 Sympathy, Perception and Reflection 3.3 History and the Refinement of Moral Capacities 3.4 Conclusion Chapter 4: Manipulated Sensibilities: Rousseau on Human Nature 4.1 The Theatre, Moral Education and Affective Susceptibility 4.2 Rousseau's Attack 4.3 Natural Goodness and the Construction of Morality 4.4 Normativity and Nature 4.5 Conclusion Chapter 5: Affect and Imagination in Processes of Cognition: Herder 5.1 The Sensing Body and the Emergence of Language 5.2 Reason as an Organisational Principle 5.3 Discovering the World through Imagination and Affect 5.4 Conclusion Part III: How to Study the Human Being? Philosophy and the Empirical Method Chapter 6: Natural History and the Formation of the Human Being: Kant and Herder 6.1 The Human Place in Nature 6.2 The Organic Growth of History 6.3 Historical Explanations 6.4 Conclusion Chapter 7: Diversifying Method: Kant's Janus-Faced Conception of the Human Being 7.1 Environmental Determinism 7.2 Kant's Dual-Aspect Account of Character 7.3 Anthropology as a Pragmatic Endeavour 7.4 Philosophy and the Sciences 7.5 Conclusion Coda: Experience Embodied Bibliography Index

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Anik Waldow is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sydney. She mainly works in early modern philosophy and has published articles on the moral and cognitive function of sympathy, early modern theories of personal identity and the role of affect in the formation of the self, skepticism and associationist theories of thought and language. She is the author of Hume and the Problem of Other Minds (Continuum 2009), editor of Sensibility in the Early Modern Era: From Living Machines to Affective Morality (Routledge 2016), and co-edited Herder: Philosophy and Anthropology (OUP 2017).

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