Regimens of the mind : Boyle, Locke, and the early modern cultura animi tradition /
Corneanu, Sorana.
Regimens of the mind : Boyle, Locke, and the early modern cultura animi tradition / Sorana Corneanu. - Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (308 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Francis Bacon and the art of direction -- An art of tempering the mind -- The distempered mind and the tree of knowledge -- A comprehensive culture of the mind -- The end of knowledge -- The study of nature as regimen -- Cultura and medicina animi: an early modern tradition -- The physician of the soul -- Sources -- Genres -- Utility: practical versus speculative knowledge -- Self-love and the fallen/uncultured mind -- The office of reason -- Passions, errors, and assent -- The discipline, the virtues, and habituation -- Virtuoso discipline -- The cure of the mind and Solomon's house -- Passions, errors, and method -- Idols and diseases of the mind -- Epistemic modesty -- The way of inquiry -- A 'union of eyes and hands': the community and objectivity revisited -- Robert Boyle: experience as paideia -- The limits and the 'perfection' of reason -- The weak mind and the virtues of a free inquiry -- Reason and experience -- The Christian philosopher -- John Locke and the education of the mind -- Limits of reason, useful knowledge, and the duty to search for truth -- A natural history of the distempered mind -- The regulation of assent: a perfecting exercise -- The discourse with a friend -- Studying nature -- Lived physics -- The appropriateness of disproportion -- Experience, history, and speculation -- Affective cognition -- Studying 'God's contrivances' -- The study of theology and the growth of the mind -- Worlds and angels -- Reading scripture -- Conclusion.
In Regimens of the Mind, Sorana Corneanu proposes a new approach to the epistemological and methodological doctrines of the leading experimental philosophers of seventeenth-century England, an approach that considers their often overlooked moral, psychological, and theological elements. Corneanu focuses on the views about the pursuit of knowledge in the writings of Robert Boyle and John Locke, as well as in those of several of their influences, including Francis Bacon and the early Royal Society virtuosi. She argues that their experimental programs of inquiry fulfill the role of regimens for c.
9780226116419 (electronic bk.) 0226116417 (electronic bk.) 1283355159 9781283355155
9786613355157
335515 MIL
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 --Philosophy.
Locke, John, 1632-1704.
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
Locke, John, 1632-1704
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
Locke, John, 1632-1704
Boyle, Robert 1627-1691
Locke, John 1632-1704
Bacon, Francis 1561-1626
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 --filosofi.
1600-1699
Philosophy, British--History--17th century.
Philosophy of mind--History--England--17th century.
Education--Philosophy--History--17th century.
Learning.
Medicine--History--17th century.
Philosophy--history
Natural Science Disciplines--history
Learning
Education--methods
History, 17th Century
Philosophie britannique--Histoire--17e siècle.
Philosophie de l'esprit--Histoire--17e siècle.
Éducation--Philosophie--Histoire--17e siècle.
Apprentissage.
Médecine--Histoire--17e siècle.
PHILOSOPHY--History & Surveys--Modern.
Education--Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Philosophy, British.
Philosophy of mind.
Philosophie
Experiment
Empirismus
Medvetandefilosofi--historia--Storbritannien--1600-talet.
Filosofi--historia--Storbritannien--1600-talet.
England
England.
England
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
B1131 / .C67 2011eb
192
2014 E-308 B 1131
Regimens of the mind : Boyle, Locke, and the early modern cultura animi tradition / Sorana Corneanu. - Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (308 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Francis Bacon and the art of direction -- An art of tempering the mind -- The distempered mind and the tree of knowledge -- A comprehensive culture of the mind -- The end of knowledge -- The study of nature as regimen -- Cultura and medicina animi: an early modern tradition -- The physician of the soul -- Sources -- Genres -- Utility: practical versus speculative knowledge -- Self-love and the fallen/uncultured mind -- The office of reason -- Passions, errors, and assent -- The discipline, the virtues, and habituation -- Virtuoso discipline -- The cure of the mind and Solomon's house -- Passions, errors, and method -- Idols and diseases of the mind -- Epistemic modesty -- The way of inquiry -- A 'union of eyes and hands': the community and objectivity revisited -- Robert Boyle: experience as paideia -- The limits and the 'perfection' of reason -- The weak mind and the virtues of a free inquiry -- Reason and experience -- The Christian philosopher -- John Locke and the education of the mind -- Limits of reason, useful knowledge, and the duty to search for truth -- A natural history of the distempered mind -- The regulation of assent: a perfecting exercise -- The discourse with a friend -- Studying nature -- Lived physics -- The appropriateness of disproportion -- Experience, history, and speculation -- Affective cognition -- Studying 'God's contrivances' -- The study of theology and the growth of the mind -- Worlds and angels -- Reading scripture -- Conclusion.
In Regimens of the Mind, Sorana Corneanu proposes a new approach to the epistemological and methodological doctrines of the leading experimental philosophers of seventeenth-century England, an approach that considers their often overlooked moral, psychological, and theological elements. Corneanu focuses on the views about the pursuit of knowledge in the writings of Robert Boyle and John Locke, as well as in those of several of their influences, including Francis Bacon and the early Royal Society virtuosi. She argues that their experimental programs of inquiry fulfill the role of regimens for c.
9780226116419 (electronic bk.) 0226116417 (electronic bk.) 1283355159 9781283355155
9786613355157
335515 MIL
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 --Philosophy.
Locke, John, 1632-1704.
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
Locke, John, 1632-1704
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
Locke, John, 1632-1704
Boyle, Robert 1627-1691
Locke, John 1632-1704
Bacon, Francis 1561-1626
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 --filosofi.
1600-1699
Philosophy, British--History--17th century.
Philosophy of mind--History--England--17th century.
Education--Philosophy--History--17th century.
Learning.
Medicine--History--17th century.
Philosophy--history
Natural Science Disciplines--history
Learning
Education--methods
History, 17th Century
Philosophie britannique--Histoire--17e siècle.
Philosophie de l'esprit--Histoire--17e siècle.
Éducation--Philosophie--Histoire--17e siècle.
Apprentissage.
Médecine--Histoire--17e siècle.
PHILOSOPHY--History & Surveys--Modern.
Education--Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Philosophy, British.
Philosophy of mind.
Philosophie
Experiment
Empirismus
Medvetandefilosofi--historia--Storbritannien--1600-talet.
Filosofi--historia--Storbritannien--1600-talet.
England
England.
England
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
B1131 / .C67 2011eb
192
2014 E-308 B 1131