Thinking across Traditions of Thought

Thinking about thinking: language, thought and introspection

I do not think that the world or the sciences would ever have suggested to me any philosophical problems. What has suggested philosophical problems to me is things which other philosophers have said about the world or the sciences. (G.E. Moore, 1942, p. 14) Peter Carruthers has made a vigorous attempt to defend the admittedly unfashionable doctrine that we think ‘in’ language, despite its displ...

Thinking and the New Psychology: Imageless Thought

Although the birthdate of an experimental psychology can be argued, Wilhelm Wundts assumption of paternity cannot. It was Wundt in 1874 who marked out the "new domain of science" and who made the break with -self-observation by insisting that "all accurate observation implies . . . that the observed object is independent of the observer." The psychical processes had to be properly controlled in...

Thinking the Unconscious: Nineteenth-Century German Thought

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So wrote Friedrich Nietzsche in 1873, as part of his ironic response to the success of the Philosophy of the Unconscious (Philosophie des Unbewussten, 1869), written by the Berlin philosopher Eduard von Hartmann. If the influence of a concept can be gauged by the way in which it is received by the public at large, if not in academic circles, then Hartmann’s volume, which ran to some eleven edit...

In the Mood for Thought: Feeling and Thinking in Philosophy