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1564Ideas of Habit and Custom in Early Modern PhilosophyJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 42 (1): 18-32. 2011.
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50Custom and Habit in Physiology and the Science of Human Nature in the British EnlightenmentEarly Science and Medicine 22 (2-3): 183-207. 2017.In this paper I show how what came to be known as “the double law of habit,” first formulated by Joseph Butler in a discussion of moral psychology in 1736, was taken up and developed by medical physiologists William Porterfield, Robert Whytt, and William Cullen as they disputed fundamental questions regarding the influence of the mind on the body, the possibility of unconscious mental processes, and the nature and extent of voluntary action. The paper shows, on a particular topic, the overlap be…Read more
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35Hume's enlightenment tract: The unity and purpose of 'an enquiry concerning human understanding'Australasian Journal of Philosophy 81 (3). 2003.Book Information Hume's Enlightenment Tract: The Unity and Purpose of 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'. By Stephen Buckle. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 2001. Pp. xi + 351. Hardback, 40.
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12In Memoriam: Michael Alexander StewartHume Studies 47 (1): 5-6. 2022.Sandy, as he was known to so many Hume scholars, died peacefully in Salisbury, England on July 30, 2021. For many years, Sandy welcomed Hume scholars to Edinburgh where he was often found working in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Departments of the National Library of Scotland and the University of Edinburgh. He shared his vast knowledge of all things Humean in conversation with visitors from all parts of the world, as well as in his many publications. He was especially generous with his time an…Read more
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7Hume's Enlightenment Tract: The Unity and Purpose of 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'Australasian Journal of Philosophy 81 (3): 434-436. 2003.Book Information Hume's Enlightenment Tract: The Unity and Purpose of 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'. By Stephen Buckle. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 2001. Pp. xi + 351. Hardback, £40.
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7The Treatise: Composition, Reception, and ResponseIn Saul Traiger (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains section titled: Reception of the Treatise by Francis Hutcheson and Hume's Revisions to Book 3 The Early Reviews of the Treatise and Hume's Response The Principal's Attack in 1745 and Hume's Defence in his Letter from a Gentleman Criticisms of the Treatise after Publication of the Enquiries Thomas Reid's Criticisms of Hume's Philosophy and Hume's Response Hume's Repudiation of the Treatise Conclusion Notes References Further reading.
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7How do local reverberations achieve global integration?Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (4): 644-645. 1995.Amit's Hebbian model risks being overexplanatory, since it does not depend on specific physiological modelling of cortical ANNs, but concentrates on those phenomena which are modelled by a large class of ANNs. While offering a strong demonstration of the presence of Hebb's “cell assemblies,” it does not offer an equal account of Hebb's “phase sequence” concept.