Anik Waldow
Biographic Data
| ID | 460203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anik Waldow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anik |
| FAMILY NAME | Waldow |
| SIGNATURE | WALDOW A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3068-264X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The art of thinking as an intersubjective practice
In the Port‐Royal Logic , Arnauld and Nicole argue that eloquence plays a crucial role in the cultivation of the art of thinking. In this essay, we demonstrate that Arnauld and Nicole's reflections on eloquence exemplify the need to reconceive the larger framework in which Cartesian theories of ideas operate. Instead of understanding epistemic agents as solitary thinkers who pursue their intellectual goals without the influence of others, our ana…
Science and the Shaping of Modernity
Reply to My Critics
In this article, I engage with the queries, comments, and suggestions raised by my commentators. In response to Lähteenmäki, I focus on Descartes’ understanding of the role of prejudice in our pre-Meditation experiences to explain how an engagement with the Meditations can change the mind’s understanding of itself. In relation to Boeker, I highlight that for Locke expressions of esteem should ideally be based on insights afforded through the use …
Précis
This précis provides a summary of the major arguments of Experience Embodied together with an overview of the three parts and individual chapters. By examining the concept of experience in the theorizing of Descartes, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Herder, and Kant, this book sets out to complicate one of the most firmly established narratives of early modern philosophy. In its traditional form, this narrative focuses on the distinction between rationali…
Condillac and His Reception
International audience
Condillac on being human
In the Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge , Condillac argues that humans develop reason only once they have discovered the function of signs and the use of language in their encounters with others. Commentators like Hans Aarsleff and Charles Taylor believe that a precondition for this discovery is the presence of a special human capacity: the capacity to reflectively relate to what is given in experience. The problem with this claim is that i…
Experience Embodied
This book develops an account of embodied experience that extends from Descartes’s conception of the human body as firmly integrated into the causal play of nature to Kant’s understanding of anthropology as a discipline that provides us with guidance in our lives as embodied creatures. It defends the claim that during the early modern period, the debate on experience not only focused on questions arising from the subjectivity of our thinking and …
Justice Through a Multispecies Lens
Herder
Herder is very much a thinker for our time. Instead of approaching facets of human existence in an isolated fashion, he brings the entire human being into focus by tracing its connections with the natural, cultural, and historical world. Through this integrated approach, Herder’s anthropology develops a holistic understanding of the human sphere in relation to our existence as natural creatures who are crucially marked by the fact that we have la…
Herder
Natural history and the formation of the human being
Activating the Mind
In this essay I argue that one of the things that matters most to Descartes' account of mind is that we use our minds actively. This is because for him only an active mind is able to re‐organize its passionate experiences in such a way that a genuinely human, self‐governed life of virtue and true contentment becomes possible. To bring out this connection, I will read the Meditations against the backdrop of Descartes' correspondence with Elisabeth…
The Artifice of Human Nature
In the eighteenth century appeals to human nature were often made to refer to universal characteristics found in every human being. Properties and dispositions pertaining to the species as a whole
Mirroring Minds
Hume’s account of sympathy has often been taken to describe what the discovery of so-called mirror neurons has suggested, namely, that we are able to understand one another’s emotions and beliefs through experiences that require no mediating thoughts and exactly resemble the experiences of the observed person. I will oppose this interpretation by arguing that, on Hume’s standard account, sympathy is a mechanism that produces ideas and beliefs pri…
Identity of Persons and Objects
By investigating one of the major inconsistencies that Hume's parallel treatment of the identity of persons and objects issues, this essay offers an unconventional account of what it needs to avoid a dualist picture of mind and world. It will be argued that much hinges on the question of whether or not one is willing to allow the principally unperceivable to enter into one's concept of reality. Hume, as will be shown, rejects this approach: he de…
David Hume and the Problem of Other Minds
Introduction 1. Scepticism versus naturalism 2. Conceiving minds 3. The world and the other Conclusion Bibliography Index
Thomas Reid's Theory of Perception - Ryan Nichols
Ryan Nichols presents Reid's theory of perception as a fascinating account. Drawing on a variety of sources, published and unpublished, he provides us with ingenious interpretations which make sense of Reid's seemingly contradictory claims, and he is able to trace developments within Reid's thought which have hitherto been neglected or misunderstood. Nichols thereby achieves an impressive task: he draws attention to many passages that on the face…
Justice Through a Multispecies Lens
Identity of Persons and Objects
By investigating one of the major inconsistencies that Hume's parallel treatment of the identity of persons and objects issues, this essay offers an unconventional account of what it needs to avoid a dualist picture of mind and world. It will be argued that much hinges on the question of whether or not one is willing to allow the principally unperceivable to enter into one's concept of reality. Hume, as will be shown, rejects this approach: he de…
Activating the Mind
In this essay I argue that one of the things that matters most to Descartes' account of mind is that we use our minds actively. This is because for him only an active mind is able to re‐organize its passionate experiences in such a way that a genuinely human, self‐governed life of virtue and true contentment becomes possible. To bring out this connection, I will read the Meditations against the backdrop of Descartes' correspondence with Elisabeth…
David Hume and the Problem of Other Minds
Introduction 1. Scepticism versus naturalism 2. Conceiving minds 3. The world and the other Conclusion Bibliography Index
Thomas Reid's Theory of Perception - Ryan Nichols
Ryan Nichols presents Reid's theory of perception as a fascinating account. Drawing on a variety of sources, published and unpublished, he provides us with ingenious interpretations which make sense of Reid's seemingly contradictory claims, and he is able to trace developments within Reid's thought which have hitherto been neglected or misunderstood. Nichols thereby achieves an impressive task: he draws attention to many passages that on the face…
Identity of Persons and Objects
By investigating one of the major inconsistencies that Hume's parallel treatment of the identity of persons and objects issues, this essay offers an unconventional account of what it needs to avoid a dualist picture of mind and world. It will be argued that much hinges on the question of whether or not one is willing to allow the principally unperceivable to enter into one's concept of reality. Hume, as will be shown, rejects this approach: he de…
Mirroring Minds
Hume’s account of sympathy has often been taken to describe what the discovery of so-called mirror neurons has suggested, namely, that we are able to understand one another’s emotions and beliefs through experiences that require no mediating thoughts and exactly resemble the experiences of the observed person. I will oppose this interpretation by arguing that, on Hume’s standard account, sympathy is a mechanism that produces ideas and beliefs pri…
The Artifice of Human Nature
In the eighteenth century appeals to human nature were often made to refer to universal characteristics found in every human being. Properties and dispositions pertaining to the species as a whole
Activating the Mind
In this essay I argue that one of the things that matters most to Descartes' account of mind is that we use our minds actively. This is because for him only an active mind is able to re‐organize its passionate experiences in such a way that a genuinely human, self‐governed life of virtue and true contentment becomes possible. To bring out this connection, I will read the Meditations against the backdrop of Descartes' correspondence with Elisabeth…
Natural history and the formation of the human being
Herder
Herder is very much a thinker for our time. Instead of approaching facets of human existence in an isolated fashion, he brings the entire human being into focus by tracing its connections with the natural, cultural, and historical world. Through this integrated approach, Herder’s anthropology develops a holistic understanding of the human sphere in relation to our existence as natural creatures who are crucially marked by the fact that we have la…
Herder
Experience Embodied
This book develops an account of embodied experience that extends from Descartes’s conception of the human body as firmly integrated into the causal play of nature to Kant’s understanding of anthropology as a discipline that provides us with guidance in our lives as embodied creatures. It defends the claim that during the early modern period, the debate on experience not only focused on questions arising from the subjectivity of our thinking and …
Justice Through a Multispecies Lens
Condillac on being human
In the Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge , Condillac argues that humans develop reason only once they have discovered the function of signs and the use of language in their encounters with others. Commentators like Hans Aarsleff and Charles Taylor believe that a precondition for this discovery is the presence of a special human capacity: the capacity to reflectively relate to what is given in experience. The problem with this claim is that i…
Reply to My Critics
In this article, I engage with the queries, comments, and suggestions raised by my commentators. In response to Lähteenmäki, I focus on Descartes’ understanding of the role of prejudice in our pre-Meditation experiences to explain how an engagement with the Meditations can change the mind’s understanding of itself. In relation to Boeker, I highlight that for Locke expressions of esteem should ideally be based on insights afforded through the use …
Précis
This précis provides a summary of the major arguments of Experience Embodied together with an overview of the three parts and individual chapters. By examining the concept of experience in the theorizing of Descartes, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Herder, and Kant, this book sets out to complicate one of the most firmly established narratives of early modern philosophy. In its traditional form, this narrative focuses on the distinction between rationali…
Condillac and His Reception
International audience
The art of thinking as an intersubjective practice
In the Port‐Royal Logic , Arnauld and Nicole argue that eloquence plays a crucial role in the cultivation of the art of thinking. In this essay, we demonstrate that Arnauld and Nicole's reflections on eloquence exemplify the need to reconceive the larger framework in which Cartesian theories of ideas operate. Instead of understanding epistemic agents as solitary thinkers who pursue their intellectual goals without the influence of others, our ana…
Science and the Shaping of Modernity
Epistemology (15 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Embodied cognition (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Cognitive science (3 works)