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Wednesday 30 January 2013, 17:00-18:00
Common sense and phrenology
- 👤 Speaker: Sean Dyde (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
- 📅 Date & Time: Wednesday 30 January 2013, 17:00 - 18:00
- 📍 Venue: Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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Michael Bycroft
Abstract
Generally speaking, my PhD thesis concerns how by the middle of the nineteenth century the British medical community had come to regard the mind as nothing more than ‘brain juice’, yet still managed to evade accusations of materialism and atheism that they frequently levelled at the French. In this chapter, I have examined a debate surrounding phrenology and a particular group of philosophers – the common sense school – in the hope to show that the cause of materialism was helped by a confusion inherent within the philosophical camp.
Series This talk is part of the HPS History Workshop series.
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