Condillac and His Reception

This volume explores the philosophy of Étienne Bonnot de Condillac. It presents, for the first time, English-language essays on Condillac's philosophy, making the complexity and sophistication of his arguments and their influence on early modern philosophy accessible to a wider readership.

Autorentext

Delphine Antoine-Mahut is Professor of Philosophy at the ENS de Lyon. She has widely published on Cartesianism, its historiography and its various receptions. Among other collective works, she co-directed The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism with Steven Nadler and Tad Schmaltz (2019). Her last book was L'autorité d'un canon philosophique. Le cas Descartes (2021).

Anik Waldow is ***Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney and specialises in early modern philosophy. She is the author of Hume and the Problem of Other Minds (2009) and Experience Embodied: Early Modern Accounts of the Human Place in Nature* (2020).

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Condillac and Us Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Anik Waldow Part 1: Condillac and His Intellectual Context 2. The Materialists (Diderot, La Mettrie, Deschamps) and Condillac's Theory of Knowledge Guillaume Coissard 3. Condillac and the Molyneux Problem Peter Anstey 4. Reinventing Newtonianism: Hypotheses, Systems and Attraction in Condillac Gianni Paganini 5. Languages of Action, Methodological Signs and Deafness: The Reception of Condillac by the Abbé de L'Épée-or was It the Other Way Around? Marion Chottin Part 2: Condillac's Reception in Nineteenth-Century France 6. Condillac Restored: The Paradox of Attention in Pierre Laromiguière's Lessons on Philosophy (1815) Pierre Brouillet 7. Madness and Ideologist Philosophy of the Mind: Pinel and Condillac on the Dualism of Understanding and Will Samuel Lézé 8. "The Only, the True French Metaphysician of the Eighteenth Century:" Condillac, Cousin and the "French School" Delphine Antoine-Mahut 9. Condillac's Puerile Reveries: The Reception of Condillac in Phrenology and in the Philosophy of Auguste Comte Laurent Clauzade Part 3: Condillac's Influence Beyond France 10. Between Debate and Reception: Formey Reads Condillac Angela Ferraro 11. Rethinking the Human Animal with Condillac and Herder Anik Waldow 12. The Reception of Condillac in Argentina: From the Nineteenth-Century Professors of idéologie to José Ingenieros Silvia Manzo Part 4: Contemporary Receptions 13. Time, Order and the Human Interior: Paths towards Condillac Christopher Goodey 14. Representations of the Body and Self-Knowledge: Condillac's Treatise on Sensations and Contemporary Naturalistic Psychology Aliènor Bertrand 15. Reductions and Radicalisation of Reductions: Condillac, Michel Henry and Maine de Biran Anne Devarieux