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This volume explores the philosophy of Étienne Bonnot de Condillac. It presents, for the first time, English-language essays on Condillac's philosophy, making the complexity and sophistication of his arguments and their influence on early modern philosophy accessible to a wider readership.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Condillac and Us
Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Anik Waldow Part 1: Condillac and His Intellectual Context 2. The Materialists (Diderot, La Mettrie, Deschamps) and Condillac's Theory of Knowledge
Guillaume Coissard 3. Condillac and the Molyneux Problem
Peter Anstey 4. Reinventing Newtonianism: Hypotheses, Systems and Attraction in Condillac
Gianni Paganini 5. Languages of Action, Methodological Signs and Deafness: The Reception of Condillac by the Abbé de L'Épée-or was It the Other Way Around?
Marion Chottin Part 2: Condillac's Reception in Nineteenth-Century France 6. Condillac Restored: The Paradox of Attention in Pierre Laromiguière's
Lessons on Philosophy (1815)
Pierre Brouillet 7. Madness and Ideologist Philosophy of the Mind: Pinel and Condillac on the Dualism of Understanding and Will
Samuel Lézé 8. "The Only, the True French Metaphysician of the Eighteenth Century:" Condillac, Cousin and the "French School"
Delphine Antoine-Mahut 9. Condillac's Puerile Reveries: The Reception of Condillac in Phrenology and in the Philosophy of Auguste Comte
Laurent Clauzade Part 3: Condillac's Influence Beyond France 10. Between Debate and Reception: Formey Reads Condillac
Angela Ferraro 11. Rethinking the Human Animal with Condillac and Herder
Anik Waldow 12. The Reception of Condillac in Argentina: From the Nineteenth-Century Professors of
idéologie to José Ingenieros
Silvia Manzo Part 4: Contemporary Receptions 13. Time, Order and the Human Interior: Paths towards Condillac
Christopher Goodey 14. Representations of the Body and Self-Knowledge: Condillac's
Treatise on Sensations and Contemporary Naturalistic Psychology
Aliènor Bertrand 15. Reductions and Radicalisation of Reductions: Condillac, Michel Henry and Maine de Biran
Anne Devarieux
About the author
Delphine Antoine-Mahut is Professor of Philosophy at the ENS de Lyon. She has widely published on Cartesianism, its historiography and its various receptions. Among other collective works, she co-directed
The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism with Steven Nadler and Tad Schmaltz (2019). Her last book was
L'autorité d'un canon philosophique. Le cas Descartes (2021).
Anik Waldow is
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney and specialises in early modern philosophy. She is the author of
Hume and the Problem of Other Minds (2009) and
Experience Embodied: Early Modern Accounts of the Human Place in Nature (2020).
