Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience

374 Pages·2014·7.58 MB·English

by  C.U.M. Smith

History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
C.U.M. Smith
Harry Whitaker E ditors
Brain,
Mind and
Consciousness
in the History
of Neuroscience
Brain, Mind and Consciousness
in the History of Neuroscience
History, Philosophy and Theory
of the Life Sciences
Volume 6
Editors:
Charles T. Wolfe, Ghent University, Belgium
Philippe Huneman, IHPST (CNRS/Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), France
Thomas A.C. Reydon, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Editorial Board:
Marshall Abrams (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Andre Ariew (Missouri)
Minus van Baalen (UPMC, Paris)
Domenico Bertoloni Meli (Indiana)
Richard Burian (Virginia Tech)
Pietro Corsi (EHESS, Paris)
François Duchesneau (Université de Montréal)
John Dupré (Exeter)
Paul Farber (Oregon State)
Lisa Gannett (Saint Mary’s University, Halifax)
Andy Gardner (Oxford)
Paul Griffi ths (Sydney)
Jean Gayon (IHPST, Paris)
Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute, London)
Thomas Heams (INRA, AgroParisTech, Paris)
James Lennox (Pittsburgh)
Annick Lesne (CNRS, UPMC, Paris)
Tim Lewens (Cambridge)
Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh)
Alexandre Métraux (Archives Poincaré, Nancy)
Hans Metz (Leiden)
Roberta Millstein (Davis)
Staffan Müller-Wille (Exeter)
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David Queller (Washington University, St Louis)
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Phillip Sloan (Notre Dame)
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J. Scott Turner (Syracuse)
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C.U.M. Smith (cid:129) Harry Whitaker
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Brain, Mind
and Consciousness
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of Neuroscience
Editors
C.U.M. Smith (1930–2013) Harry Whitaker
Department of Vision Sciences Department of Psychology
Aston University Northern Michigan University
Birmingham, UK Marquette, MI , USA
ISSN 2211-1948 ISSN 2211-1956 (electronic)
ISBN 978-94-017-8773-4 ISBN 978-94-017-8774-1 (eBook)
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On January 4, 2013, Chris Smith passed
away. This book represents an idea that he
broached to me three years ago; his
consummate scholarship and unfl agging
collegiality is refl ected in both the scope and
quality of the work herein. Robert Burns
mused “O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!” Well, Chris,
we saw you as an academic and a gentleman;
thank you for making a part of our lives so
special.
Whit

Acknowledgment
Without the unfl agging assistance of Jenny Smith, it would not have been possible
to complete this volume of essays. Je te remercie de tout coeur.
Whit
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Contents
1 Beginnings: Ventricular Psychology ...................................................... 1
C. U. M. Smith
2 Return of the Repressed: Spinozan Ideas
in the History of the Mind and Brain Sciences..................................... 21
William Meehan
3 ‘Struck, As It Were, with Madness’: Phenomenology
and Animal Spirits in the Neuropathology of Thomas Willis ............. 43
Kathryn Tabb
4 Hooke’s Mechanical Mind ...................................................................... 59
J. J. MacIntosh
5 Joseph Priestley: An Instructive Eighteenth
Century Perspective on the Mind-Body Problem ................................ 75
Alan Beretta
6 Reflections of Western Thinking on Nineteenth Century
Ottoman Thought: A Critique of the ‘Hard-Problem’
by Spyridon Mavrogenis, a Nineteenth Century Physiologist ............ 91
George Anogianakis
7 George Henry Lewes (1817–1878): Embodied Cognition,
Vitalism, and the Evolution of Symbolic Perception ........................... 105
Elfed Huw Price
8 Herbert Spencer: Brain, Mind and the Hard Problem ....................... 125
C. U. M. Smith
9 Problems of Consciousness in Nineteenth Century
British and American Neurology ........................................................... 147
J. Wayne Lazar
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