Sensibility in the Early Modern Era
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This collection explores the connections between the concept of sensibility and the early modern attempt to think of the human being as a special kind of sensitive machine and affectively responsive animal. Humans, as they are understood in this context, relate to themselves by sensing themselves and perpetually refining their intellectual and moral capacities in response to the way the world affects them. Responding to the world here refers to the way in which both natural and man-made influences impact on our ability to conceptualise the animate and inanimate world, and our place within that…mehr

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This collection explores the connections between the concept of sensibility and the early modern attempt to think of the human being as a special kind of sensitive machine and affectively responsive animal. Humans, as they are understood in this context, relate to themselves by sensing themselves and perpetually refining their intellectual and moral capacities in response to the way the world affects them. Responding to the world here refers to the way in which both natural and man-made influences impact on our ability to conceptualise the animate and inanimate world, and our place within that world. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Intellectual History Review.
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Anik Waldow is Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sydney, Australia. She mainly works in early modern philosophy, and has published articles on the moral and cognitive function of Humean sympathy, early modern theories of personal identity, scepticism, and associationist theories of thought and language. She is the author of the book David Hume and the Problem of Other Minds (2009) and the co-editor of Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy: Nature and Norms in Thought (2013).