Faculties in Early Modern Philosophy

Schmid, Stephan G.

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“…It then transpires that "[t]hose who are acquainted with the metaphysical part of optics […] know how we transfer the judgements and conclusions of the understanding to the senses" (T 2.2.8.6), allowing us to judge the distance and relative size of the Footnote 10 (continued) to reason, by Cohon (2008) with respect to moral sense, and by Costelloe (2018) with respect to imagination. 11 Malebranche's and Descartes's 'faculty' are examples of this approach; see for instance Schmid (2015) who also provides an interpretation of Humean 'faculty' consonant with those mentioned in the previous footnote. For an overview of early modern conceptions of faculties, see Hatfield (1997).…”

Section: The Productivity Of Faculties: Illustrationsmentioning

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Fodor’s guide to the Humean mind

Demeter

2021

Synthese

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For Jerry Fodor, Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature is “the foundational document of cognitive science” whose significance transcends mere historical interest: it is a source of theoretical inspiration in cognitive psychology. Here I am going to argue that those reading Hume along Fodor’s lines rely on a problematic, albeit inspiring, construction of Hume’s science of mind. My strategy in this paper is to contrast Fodor’s understanding of the Humean mind (consonant with the widely received view of Hume in both cognitive science and much of Hume scholarship) with an alternative understanding that I propose. I thereby intend to show that the received view of Hume’s science of mind can be fruitfully revised while critically engaging with Fodor’s contemporary appropriation. Consequently, I use this occasion to put forward a rather unorthodox interpretation of Hume’s theory in dialogue with Fodor as my guide.

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Section: The Productivity Of Faculties: Illustrationsmentioning

confidence: 99%