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The Early Years of Mind offers a panoramic overview as well as in-depth accounts of the first decades of Mind - one of the leading philosophical journals since almost 150 years. Founded in 1876 by Alexander Bain, it soon published some of the best new work in Anglophone philosophy and psychology, containing contributions from major and once well-known but today largely forgotten authors, from Herbert Spencer to Bertrand Russell and from J.M.E. McTaggart to E.E. Constance Jones.
Mind's ambition was to provide a platform for study and discussion of the scientific status of philosophy and psychology, whose intellectual and professional standing and boundaries were yet unsettled. A focus on the contents of Mind in the first forty years of its existence not only helps unearth a revealing historical picture of the major topics, themes and traditions that dominated philosophy at the turn of the nineteenth century, including evolutionary thinking and the rise of idealist and analytic philosophers. It also makes it possible to recognize their relevance to present-day endeavours. Mind's contributors addressed issues that still (or, sometimes: again) concern us today: What is the relation between philosophy and psychology? Should philosophers be knowledgeable of the latest scientific advances, and if so, how? What is the significance of philosophy for the natural and exact sciences? And what for society? Last but not least, a close look at Mind under George Croom Robertson and G.F. Stout offers a forceful reminder of the prominent role of women philosophers in Britain and America, participating in philosophical and psychological discussion despite numerous constraints.
Bringing together a diverse team of eminent and emergent scholars, this pioneering volume tells the fascinating story of Mind's early years and, in so doing, sheds light on larger questions about the history of philosophy and psychology at a time of disciplinary self-experimentation.
Contents
Preface by A.W. Moore and Lucy O'Brien
Introduction: Minding the Gap Between Science and PhilosophyLukas M. Verburgt:
Part One: Editors and Outlooks
1: Gordon Graham: Alexander Bain and Mind
2: Alexander Klein: Psychology and Philosophy: Bain and Robertson's Vision, James's Revision
3: Fraser MacBride: G.F. Stout: Analytic Psychologist, Philosopher and Editor
Part Two: Developments and Debates
4: Paolo Pecere: Synthesis and the Unity of Mind: From Idealistic Philosophy to Psychology (and Back)
5: Mazviita Chirimuuta: Physiology and the Problem of Mind and Life
6: Michael Ruse: Evolutionary Ethics: The Philosophers' Critique
7: Robert Stern: The Concrete Universal: A Very British Hegelianism?
8: Paul Guyer: Kant in Mind: Resisting Idealism
9: Cheryl Misak: Mind and the Pragmatists
Part Three: Topics and Figures
10: Saulo Araujo: A Tale of Two, Once-Related Disciplines: Wilhelm Wundt's Contributions to and Early Reception in Mind
11: Francesca Biagioli: Spatial Perception between Philosophy and Psychology: Hermann von Helmholtz in Mind
12: Trevor Pearce: Protoplasm and the Mind-Body Problem: The Case of Edmund Montgomery
13: Julia Kursell: Tune vs Tone: James Sully's and Carl Stumpf's Debate on Music
14: Sophia M. Connell: Sophie Bryant in Mind: Psychology, Character and the Education of the Citizen
15: Hans V. Hansen: Alfred Sidgwick's Informal Logic
Part Four: Towards and Before Analytic Philosophy
16: Frederique Janssen-Lauret: Constance Jones, Christine Ladd-Franklin, and Victoria Welby Grandmothers of Analytic Philosophy in Mind
17: Sean Morris: Between Science and Philosophy: The Psychological Background of Russell's Theory of Sense Data
Appendix 1: Overview of Journals
Appendix 2: Lists of Mind's Contributors
