Abstract Remembering Stephen Gaukroger's extraordinary contributions on the history of the
mind-body problem and other key issues in cognitive history, this essay assesses relations …

This paper examines the dispute between Burge and McDowell over methodology in the
philosophy of perception.,) has argued that the disjunctivism posited by naive perceptual …

Music in the Flesh reimagines the lived experiences of music-making subjects—composers,
performers, listeners—in the long seventeenth century. There are countless historical …

This chapter offers a critical examination of the recent attempt in the work of John Sutton to
link Descartes's account of memory traces to “connectionist” views of memory in …

Metaphors played an indispensable role in the development and legitimization of early
modern economic rationalities. One of the most prevalent metaphors described the state as …

Starting with the study of Magnus Hundt's Antropologium (1501) and Galeazzo Capra's
Anthropologia (1533), this article will first show that the comprehensive study of humankind …

What is thehistorical epistemology of the life sciences? In what way does it differ from
historico-philosophical reflection on “foundational” or “conceptual” issues in the sciences …

Justin EH Smith, ed., Embodiment, a history, Oxford, Oxford UP, 2017. On définit ici
l'embodiment comme une interprétation d'œuvres consacrées à l'Homme selon lesquelles …

In this short essay I reflect on Stephen Gaukroger's enterprise especially as presented in the
four-volume study on science and the shaping of modernity, and ask if it is a version of …

Materialism as a doctrine is, of course, a part of the history of philosophy, even if it was often
a polemical construct, and it took until the 18 th century for philosophers to be willing to call …