Habit and the History of Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9781138735644 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str.

Jeremy Dunham; Komarine Romdenh-Romluc

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This outstanding collection offers a thorough and diverse philosophical exploration of habit from the classical period to the modern day. Essential reading for students and researchers in the history of philosophy, ethics, phenomenology, philosophy of action and pragmatism.

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Introduction Jeremy Dunham and Komarine Romdenh-Romluc  Part 1: Habit and Ancient Philosophy  1. Socrates on Habituation and Politics: Plato’s Gorgias 509c6-510a4 Leo Catana  2. Guided Practice Makes Perfect Habituation into Full Virtue in Aristotle’s Ethics Karen Margrethe Nielsen  3. Aristotle on the nature of ethos and ethismos Margaret Hampson  4. Making Progress: Epictetus on Habituation John Sellars  Part 2: Habit and Early Modern Philosophy  5. Forming the Habit of Thinking Well: Descartes’ Reshaping of the Act of Reasoning Elodie Cassan  6. Habit in Hartley’s Reconciling Project: Between Christian Morality and the Usual Course of Nature Catherine Dromelet  7. Habit and Will in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy John Wright  8. Kant’s Account of Intellectual Habit and Moral Education Carl Hildebrand  Part 3: Habit and Modern Philosophy  9. The Dispositional Account of Habits and Explanation of Moral Action in F.H. Bradley Dina Babushkina  10. Phenomenology as Vocation – A Project Instituted and Habituated by the Will Sara Heinämaa  11. Personal Acts, Habit, and Embodied Agency in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception Justin White  12. Deleuze on Habit and Time; or, How to Get, and How not to Get, from Hume to Bergson Mark Sinclair  Part 4: Contemporary Perspectives on Habit  13. Habit and the Spiritual Life: Perspectives from Christian Mysticism and the Philosophy of Religion Simone Kotva  14. Are habits inherited? A possible epigenetic route from Charles Darwin to the contemporary debate Mariagrazia Portera and Mauro Mandrioli  15. The Discourse Ecology Model: Changing the World One Habit at a Time Susan Notess  16. Habit and Practice Clare Carlisle  17. Habit-Formation: What’s in a Perspective? Will Hornett  18. Habits in Perception: A Diachronic Defence of Hyperinferentialism Cathy Legg.  Index