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'This book is excellent - a wonderful resource for both students, who get a wonderfully clear introduction to French philosophy of science and its background, and for scholars, who get a number of nuanced new interpretations of any number of key texts.' Martin Kusch, University of Cambridge, UK 'For much of the twentieth century French intellectual life was dominated by theoreticians and historians of mentalite: Lucien Levi-Bruhl, Leon Brunschvicg, Helene Metzger, Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem and Alexandre Koyre, to name but a few. This was a coherent enterprise with its own agenda and network of institutions. However, recent studies have broken it up into anthropology, sociology, psychology, history of science, history of philosophy, etc. This fascinating work is the first to do justice to the movement as a whole. Combining sensitive historical analyses with sharp and precise presentations of the major debates, Writing the History of Mind will have wide appeal to historians of science, philosophy, and anthropology, and more generally of modern European culture. Nick Jardine, University of Cambridge, UK

'This book is excellent - a wonderful resource for both students, who get a wonderfully clear introduction to French philosophy of science and its background, and for scholars, who get a number of nuanced new interpretations of any number of key texts.' Martin Kusch, University of Cambridge, UK 'For much of the twentieth century French intellectual life was dominated by theoreticians and historians of mentalite: Lucien Levi-Bruhl, Leon Brunschvicg, Helene Metzger, Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem and Alexandre Koyre, to name but a few. This was a coherent enterprise with its own agenda and network of institutions. However, recent studies have broken it up into anthropology, sociology, psychology, history of science, history of philosophy, etc. This fascinating work is the first to do justice to the movement as a whole. Combining sensitive historical analyses with sharp and precise presentations of the major debates, Writing the History of Mind will have wide appeal to historians of science, philosophy, and anthropology, and more generally of modern European culture. Nick Jardine, University of Cambridge, UK

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Dr Cristina Chimisso is a senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at The Open University, UK.

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