{"product_id":"habit-and-the-history-of-philosophy-9781138735644","title":"Habit and the History of Philosophy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Aristotle, habit was a fundamental aspect of human nature; and for William James, it was the enormous flywheel of society. In both the history of philosophy and contemporary research, it is acknowledged as a fundamental topic in ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of action, and phenomenology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis major volume, written by a team of international contributors, is an outstanding collection that offers a thorough and diverse philosophical exploration of habit from the classical period to the modern day. Carefully edited to reflect the breadth of the subject, its 18 chapters are divided into four clear parts:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eHabit and Ancient Philosophy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHabit and Early Modern Philosophy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHabit and Modern Philosophy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContemporary Perspectives on Habit.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eKey topics, debates, and figures are covered such as the emotions, perception, free will, William James, John Dewey, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, John McDowell, and Hubert Dreyfus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHab\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003ci\u003eJeremy Dunham and Komarine Romdenh-Romluc \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1: Habit and Ancient Philosophy \u003c\/b\u003e1. Socrates on Habituation and Politics: Plato’s \u003ci\u003eGorgias\u003c\/i\u003e 509c6-510a4 \u003ci\u003eLeo Catana \u003c\/i\u003e2. Guided Practice Makes Perfect Habituation into Full Virtue in Aristotle’s Ethics \u003ci\u003eKaren Margrethe Nielsen \u003c\/i\u003e3. Aristotle on the nature of \u003ci\u003eethos \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eethismos\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMargaret Hampson \u003c\/i\u003e4. Making Progress: Epictetus on Habituation \u003ci\u003eJohn Sellars \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2: Habit and Early Modern Philosophy \u003c\/b\u003e5. Forming the Habit of Thinking Well: Descartes’ Reshaping of the Act of Reasoning \u003ci\u003eElodie Cassan \u003c\/i\u003e6. Habit in Hartley’s Reconciling Project: Between Christian Morality and the Usual Course of Nature \u003ci\u003eCatherine Dromelet \u003c\/i\u003e7. Habit and Will in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy \u003ci\u003eJohn Wright \u003c\/i\u003e8. Kant’s Account of Intellectual Habit and Moral Education \u003ci\u003eCarl Hildebrand \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3: Habit and Modern Philosophy \u003c\/b\u003e9. The Dispositional Account of Habits and Explanation of Moral Action in F.H. Bradley \u003ci\u003eDina Babushkina \u003c\/i\u003e10. Phenomenology as Vocation – A Project Instituted and Habituated by the Will \u003ci\u003eSara Heinämaa \u003c\/i\u003e11. Personal Acts, Habit, and Embodied Agency in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception \u003ci\u003eJustin White \u003c\/i\u003e12. Deleuze on Habit and Time; or, How to Get, and How not to Get, from Hume to Bergson \u003ci\u003eMark Sinclair \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 4: Contemporary Perspectives on Habit \u003c\/b\u003e13. Habit and the Spiritual Life: Perspectives from Christian Mysticism and the Philosophy of Religion \u003ci\u003eSimone Kotva \u003c\/i\u003e14. Are habits inherited? A possible epigenetic route from Charles Darwin to the contemporary debate\u003ci\u003e Mariagrazia Portera and Mauro Mandrioli \u003c\/i\u003e15. The Discourse Ecology Model: Changing the World One Habit at a Time\u003ci\u003e Susan Notess \u003c\/i\u003e16. Habit and Practice \u003ci\u003eClare Carlisle \u003c\/i\u003e17. Habit-Formation: What’s in a Perspective? \u003ci\u003eWill Hornett \u003c\/i\u003e18. Habits in Perception: A Diachronic Defence of Hyperinferentialism \u003ci\u003eCathy Legg. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cem\u003eIndex\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019521392983,"sku":"9781138735644","price":193.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138735644.jpg?v=1750780518","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/habit-and-the-history-of-philosophy-9781138735644","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}