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Mental Powers

From Descartes to Kant

By: Federico Boccaccini (Editor), Anna Marmodoro (Editor)

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Hardcover | 29 September 2025 | Edition Number 1

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Scholars of the history of philosophy of mind have focused by and large on the early modern critique of the Aristotelian-scholastic theory of vegetative, sensory and intellectual faculties of the soul. While it is true that the early moderns attacked and abandoned the âoldâ metaphysical conception of soulâs faculties, many thinkers of the period still continued to debate about, for or against, the limits and nature of the powers of thought â" from Descartes to Kant. The notion of âmental powerâ is central to these debates, and yet it has received little attention by specialists in modern philosophy. Taking into consideration some representative figures of modern thought like Descartes, Cudworth, Locke, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume and Kant, this edited volume presents a general account of the concept of âmental powerâ in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focusing on the issue of how a sample of influential thinkers of that period analyzed, described and conceived the human agentâs mental abilities and skills as governing perception, action and moral behavior. This leads to innovative narrative which partially accounts for, in a broad sense, the rise of modern psychology and philosophy of mind. This book was originally published as a special issue of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy.

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