Autorentext

Lukas M. Verburgt is currently an independent scholar based in the Netherlands. He has held visiting research positions at Trinity College, Cambridge; the Department for the History and Philosophy of Science in Cambridge; and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Verburgt's research concerns the history of science, the history of philosophy, and the history of the philosophy of science in the long nineteenth century, especially in the Anglophone world. He is the author of numerous articles and (co-)editor of the Cambridge Companion to John Herschel and Aristotle's Syllogism and the Creation of Modern Logic.

Klappentext

This book offers a panoramic overview as well as in-depth accounts of the first decades of Mind - one of the leading philosophical journals since almost 150 years. Founded in 1876 by Alexander Bain, it soon published some of the best new work in Anglophone philosophy and psychology.

Inhalt

• Introduction: Minding the Gap Between Science and Philosophy

• Part One: Editors and Outlooks

• 1: Gordon Graham: Alexander Bain and Mind

• 2: Alexander Klein: Psychology and Philosophy: Bain and Robertson's Vision, James's Revision

• 3: Fraser MacBride: G.F. Stout: Analytic Psychologist, Philosopher and Editor

• Part Two: Developments and Debates

• 4: Paolo Pecere: Synthesis and the Unity of Mind: From Idealistic Philosophy to Psychology (and Back)

• 5: Mazviita Chirimuuta: Physiology and the Problem of Mind and Life

• 6: Michael Ruse: Evolutionary Ethics: The Philosophers' Critique

• 7: Robert Stern: The Concrete Universal: A Very British Hegelianism?

• 8: Paul Guyer: Kant in Mind: Resisting Idealism

• 9: Cheryl Misak: Mind and the Pragmatists

• Part Three: Topics and Figures

• 10: Saulo Araujo: A Tale of Two, Once-Related Disciplines: Wilhelm Wundt's Contributions to and Early Reception in Mind

• 11: Francesca Biagioli: Spatial Perception between Philosophy and Psychology: Hermann von Helmholtz in Mind

• 12: Trevor Pearce: Protoplasm and the Mind-Body Problem: The Case of Edmund Montgomery

• 13: Julia Kursell: Tune vs Tone: James Sully's and Carl Stumpf's Debate on Music

• 14: Sophia M. Connell: Sophie Bryant in Mind: Psychology, Character and the Education of the Citizen

• 15: Hans V. Hansen: Alfred Sidgwick's Informal Logic

• Part Four: Towards and Before Analytic Philosophy

• 16: Frederique Janssen-Lauret: Constance Jones, Christine Ladd-Franklin, and Victoria Welby Grandmothers of Analytic Philosophy in Mind

• 17: Sean Morris: Between Science and Philosophy: The Psychological Background of Russell's Theory of Sense Data

• Appendix 1: Overview of Journals

• Appendix 2: Lists of Mind's Contributors