"For 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. This 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: Habit and Ancient Philosophy Habit and Early Modern Philosophy Habit and Modern Philosophy Contemporary Perspectives on Habit. Key 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. Habit and the History of Philosophy is essential reading for students and researchers in the history of philosophy, ethics, phenomenology, philosophy of action and pragmatism. It will also be extremely useful for those in related disciplines such as religion, sociology and history"--
This outstanding collection offers a thorough and diverse philosophical exploration of habit from the classical period to the modern day. Essential reading for students and researchers in the history of philosophy, ethics, phenomenology, philosophy of action and pragmatism.
Introduction Jeremy Dunham and Komarine Romdenh-Romluc Part 1: Habit and
Ancient Philosophy
1. Socrates on Habituation and Politics: Platos Gorgias
509c6-510a4 Leo Catana
2. Guided Practice Makes Perfect Habituation into Full
Virtue in Aristotles Ethics Karen Margrethe Nielsen
3. Aristotle on the
nature of ethos and ethismos Margaret Hampson
4. Making Progress: Epictetus
on Habituation John Sellars Part 2: Habit and Early Modern Philosophy
5.
Forming the Habit of Thinking Well: Descartes Reshaping of the Act of
Reasoning Elodie Cassan
6. Habit in Hartleys Reconciling Project: Between
Christian Morality and the Usual Course of Nature Catherine Dromelet
7. Habit
and Will in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy John Wright
8. Kants
Account of Intellectual Habit and Moral Education Carl Hildebrand Part 3:
Habit and Modern Philosophy
9. The Dispositional Account of Habits and
Explanation of Moral Action in F.H. Bradley Dina Babushkina
10. Phenomenology
as Vocation A Project Instituted and Habituated by the Will Sara Heinämaa
11. Personal Acts, Habit, and Embodied Agency in Merleau-Pontys
Phenomenology of Perception Justin White
12. Deleuze on Habit and Time; or,
How to Get, and How not to Get, from Hume to Bergson Mark Sinclair Part 4:
Contemporary Perspectives on Habit
13. Habit and the Spiritual Life:
Perspectives from Christian Mysticism and the Philosophy of Religion Simone
Kotva
14. Are habits inherited? A possible epigenetic route from Charles
Darwin to the contemporary debate Mariagrazia Portera and Mauro Mandrioli
15.
The Discourse Ecology Model: Changing the World One Habit at a Time Susan
Notess
16. Habit and Practice Clare Carlisle
17. Habit-Formation: Whats in a
Perspective? Will Hornett
18. Habits in Perception: A Diachronic Defence of
Hyperinferentialism Cathy Legg. Index
Jeremy Dunham is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Durham, UK. He is a co-author of Idealism: The History of a Philosophy (2014), and with Pauline Phemister, co-editor of Monadologies (Routledge, 2018).
Komarine Romdenh-Romluc is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is the author of the Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Merleau-Ponty and Phenomenology of Perception (2011), and co-edits the book series Routledge Research in Phenomenology.
