Regimens of the mind
Subtitle: Boyle, Locke, and the early modern cultura animi tradition
By: Sorana Corneanu
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780226116396
Subjects: British Philosophy; Philosophy; Education; Philosophy of mind; History
Description: In this work, Sorana Corneanu proposes a different approach to the epistemological and methodological doctrines of the leading experimental philosophers of 17th-century England, an approach that considers their often overlooked moral, psychological, and theological elements.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-300) and index.
Table of contents: title: Francis Bacon and the art of direction; title: An art of tempering the mind; title: The distempered mind and the tree of knowledge; title: A comprehensive culture of the mind; title: The end of knowledge; title: The study of nature as regimen; title: Cultura and medicina animi: an early modern tradition; title: The physician of the soul; title: Sources; title: Genres; title: Utility: practical versus speculative knowledge; title: Self-love and the fallen/uncultured mind; title: The office of reason; title: Passions, errors, and assent; title: The discipline, the virtues, and habituation; title: Virtuoso discipline; title: The cure of the mind and Solomon's house; title: Passions, errors, and method; title: Idols and diseases of the mind; title: Epistemic modesty; title: The way of inquiry; title: A 'union of eyes and hands': the community and objectivity revisited; title: Robert Boyle: experience as paideia; title: The limits and the 'perfection' of reason; title: The weak mind and the virtues of a free inquiry; title: Reason and experience; title: The Christian philosopher; title: John Locke and the education of the mind; title: Limits of reason, useful knowledge, and the duty to search for truth; title: A natural history of the distempered mind; title: The regulation of assent: a perfecting exercise; title: The discourse with a friend; title: Studying nature; title: Lived physics; title: The appropriateness of disproportion; title: Experience, history, and speculation; title: Affective cognition; title: Studying 'God's contrivances'; title: The study of theology and the growth of the mind; title: Worlds and angels; title: Reading scripture; title: Conclusion.