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THEACHILLESOFRATIONALISTPSYCHOLOGY STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY OF MIND Volume7 Editors HenrikLagerlund,TheUniversityofWesternOntario,Canada MikkoYrjönsuuri,AcademyofFinlandandUniversityofJyväskylä,Finland BoardofConsultingEditors LilliAlanen,UppsalaUniversity,Sweden JoëlBiard,UniversityofTours,France MichaelDellaRocca,YaleUniversity,U.S.A. EyjólfurEmilsson,UniversityofOslo,Norway AndréGombay,UniversityofToronto,Canada PatriciaKitcher,ColumbiaUniversity,U.S.A. SimoKnuuttila,UniversityofHelsinki,Finland BéatriceM.Longuenesse,NewYorkUniversity,U.S.A. CalvinNormore,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles,U.S.A. AimsandScope Theaimoftheseriesistofosterhistoricalresearchintothenatureofthinkingand the workings of the mind. The volumes address topics of intellectual history that wouldnowadaysfallintodifferentdisciplineslikephilosophyofmind,philosoph- icalpsychology,artificialintelligence,cognitivescience,etc.Themonographsand collections of articles in the series are historically reliable as well as congenialto thecontemporaryreader.Theyprovideoriginalinsightsintocentralcontemporary problemsbylookingattheminhistoricalcontexts,addressingissueslikeconscious- ness,representationandintentionality,mindandbody,theselfandtheemotions.In thisway,thebooksopenupnewperspectivesforresearchonthesetopics. THE ACHILLES OF RATIONALIST PSYCHOLOGY Editedby THOMASM.LENNON UniversityofWesternOntario,London,ON,Canada and ROBERT J. STAINTON UniversityofWesternOntario,London,ON,Canada Editors ThomasM.Lennon RobertJ.Stainton UniversityofWesternOntario UniversityofWesternOntario DepartmentofPhilosophy DepartmentofPhilosophy TalbotCollege TalbotCollege 1151RichmondStreet 1151RichmondStreet LondonONN6A3K7 LondonONN6A3K7 Canada Canada ISBN:978-1-4020-6892-8 e-ISBN:978-1-4020-6893-5 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2007939014 (cid:2)c 2008SpringerScience+BusinessMediaB.V. Nopartofthisworkmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted inanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,microfilming,recording orotherwise,withoutwrittenpermissionfromthePublisher,withtheexception ofanymaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurposeofbeingentered andexecutedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveusebythepurchaserofthework. Printedonacid-freepaper. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 springer.com Contents Introduction ...................................................... 1 T.M.LennonandR.J.Stainton 1 DidPlatoArticulatetheAchillesArgument? ...................... 19 KarenMargretheNielsen 2 AristotleontheUnityofConsciousness ........................... 43 JohnThorp 3 TheNeoplatonicAchilles........................................ 59 DevinHenry 4 TheUnityoftheSoulandContraryAppetitesinMedievalPhilosophy 75 HenrikLagerlund 5 Hume,SpinozaandtheAchillesInference ......................... 93 ShannonDea 6 LockeandtheAchillesArgument ................................115 Jean-PierreSchachter 7 TheReverseAchillesinLocke ...................................133 BenjaminHill 8 CudworthandBayle:AnOddCouple? ...........................139 ThomasM.Lennon 9 The AchillesArgumentandtheNatureofMatterintheClarke CollinsCorrespondence.........................................159 MarleenRozemond 10 Leibniz’s‘Achilles’ .............................................177 Jean-PierreSchachter 11 Hume’sReplytotheAchillesArgument ..........................193 LorneFalkenstein v vi Contents 12 KantandMendelssohnontheImplicationsofthe‘IThink’ .........215 BrigitteSassen 13 KantontheAchillesArgument ...................................235 WilliamHarper 14 WilliamJamesandtheAchillesArgument ........................247 HunterBrown 15 TheBindingProblem:Achillesinthe21stCentury.................257 ChristopherViger,RobynBluhmandShardayMosurinjohn Bibliography.......................................................277 AuthorIndex ......................................................287 Contributors RobynBluhm Department of Philosophy, Talbot College, Richmond Street, The University ofWesternOntario,London,ONN6A3K7,Canada HunterBrown DepartmentofPhilosophy,266EpworthAvenue,King’sUniversityCollege,London, ONM6A2M3,Canada e-mail:[email protected] ShannonDea Department of Philosophy, 200 University Avenue West, University of Waterloo, Waterloo,ONN2L3G1,Canada e-mail:[email protected] LorneFalkenstein Department of Philosophy, Talbot College, Richmond Street, The University ofWesternOntario,London,ONN6A3K7,Canada e-mail:[email protected] WilliamHarper Department of Philosophy, Talbot College, Richmond Street, The University ofWesternOntario,London,ONN6A3K7,Canada e-mail:[email protected] DevinHenry Department of Philosophy, Talbot College, Richmond Street, The University ofWesternOntario,London,ONN6A3K7,Canada e-mail:[email protected] BenjaminHill Department of Philosophy, Talbot College, Richmond Street, The University ofWesternOntario,London,ONN6A3K7,Canada e-mail:[email protected] vii viii Contributors HenrikLagerlund Department of Philosophy, Talbot College, Richmond Street, The University ofWesternOntario,London,ONN6A3K7,Canada e-mail:[email protected] ThomasM.Lennon Department of Philosophy, Talbot College, Richmond Street, The University ofWesternOntario,London,ONN6A3K7,Canada e-mail:[email protected] ShardayMosurinjohn Department of Philosophy, Talbot College, Richmond Street, The University ofWesternOntario,London,ONN6A3K7,Canada e-mail:[email protected] KarenMargretheNielsen Department of Philosophy, Talbot College, Richmond Street, The University ofWesternOntario,London,ONN6A3K7,Canada e-mail:[email protected] MarleenRozemond Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Missisauga, 3359 Missisauga Rd.N.,Missisauga,ONL5L1C6,Canada e-mail:[email protected] BrigitteSassen DepartmentofPhilosophy,McMasterUniversity,1280MainStreetWest,Hamilton, ONL8S4L8,Canada e-mail:[email protected] Jean-PierreSchachter DepartmentofPhilosophy,TheUniversityofWesternOntario,64SherwoodAve., London,ONN6A2E2,Canada e-mail:[email protected] JohnThorp Department of Philosophy, Talbot College, Richmond Street, The University ofWesternOntario,London,ONN6A3K7,Canada e-mail:[email protected] R.J.Stainton Department of Philosophy, Talbot College, Richmond Street, The University ofWesternOntario,London,ONN6A3K7,Canada e-mail:[email protected] Contributors ix ChristopherViger Department of Philosophy, Talbot College, Richmond Street, The University ofWesternOntario,London,ONN6A3K7,Canada e-mail:[email protected]
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