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The Faculties - A History (Hardcover)
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The Faculties - A History (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Philosophical Concepts
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It seems quite natural to explain the activities of human and
non-human animals by referring to their special faculties. Thus, we
say that dogs can smell things in their environment because they
have perceptual faculties, or that human beings can think because
they have rational faculties. But what are faculties? In what sense
are they responsible for a wide range of activities? How can they
be individuated? How are they interrelated? And why are different
types of faculties assigned to different types of living beings?
The six chapters in this book discuss these questions, covering a
wide period from Plato up to contemporary debates about faculties
as modules of the mind. They show that faculties were referred to
in different theoretical contexts, but analyzed in radically
different ways. Some philosophers, especially Aristotelians, made
them the cornerstone of their biological and psychological
theories, taking them to be basic powers of living beings. Others
took them to be inner causes that literally produce activities,
while still others provided a purely functional explanation. The
chapters focus on various models, taking into account Greek,
Arabic, Latin, French, German and Anglo-American debates. They
analyze the role assigned to faculties in metaphysics, philosophy
of mind and epistemology, but also the attack that was often
launched against the assumption that faculties are hidden yet real
features of living beings. The short "Reflections" inserted between
the chapters make clear that faculties were also widely discussed
in literature, science and medicine.
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