Self and Sensibility: Essays in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy of Mind

Preface
Contents
Introduction: Self and Sensibility
I The Seventeenth-Century Background: From Locke to Hume
1 Personal Identity
2 Hume on the Self and His ‘Overall Philosophical Scheme’
II The Feeling of Self: From Claude Buffier to Rousseau
3 From Intimate Sentiment to Pure Self- Consciousness: Buffier and Lelarge de Lignac
4 Self and Sensibility: From Locke to Condillac and Rousseau
5 Between Leibniz and Locke: Charles Bonnet on Self-Consciousness and Personal Identity
III Self-Consciousness and Personal Identity in Eighteenth-Century Materialism
6 Locke in Göttingen
7 Varieties of Inner Sense. Two Pre-Kantian Theories
8 Locke and Eighteenth-Century Materialist Conceptions of Personal Identity
9 Religion and materialist metaphysics: Some aspects of the debate about the resurrection of the body in eighteenth-century Britain
IV Consciousness and Common Sense
10 Consciousness and Common Sense: From Claude Buffier to Thomas Brown
11 Reid and Higher Order Theories of Consciousness
V Kant in Context 1: Consciousness and Self-Consciousness
12 Between Wolff and Kant: Mérian’s Theory of Apperception
13 Experience and Inner Sense: Feder–Lossius–Kant
14 Kant and Tetens on the Unity of the Self
15 Consciousness, Inner Sense and Self- Consciousness in the 1760s
VI Kant in Context 2: Personhood and the Feeling of Self
16 The Concept of a Person in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy: Leibniz – Wolff – Kant
17 The Critique of Rational Psychology
18 Priestley and Kant on Materialism
19 Between Empirical Psychology and Transcendental Philosophy: Ernst Platner on the Feeling of Self
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index of Names