John P Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3698618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John P Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | John P |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central Michigan University [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Dr. Norman White special issue on criminal justice scholarship & race
Custom and Habit in Physiology and the Science of Human Nature in the British Enlightenment
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 …
Hume, David (1711–76)
Biosocial Approaches
On the consequences of ignoring genetic influences in criminological research
Hume on the origin of ‘modern honour’
Ideas of Habit and Custom in Early Modern Philosophy
There were no single full-length thematic studies of habit during the Early Modern period, though it was discussed in relation to many other topics. Nevertheless, puzzles about habit were posed by many thinkers of this period which were later taken up in the systematic studies of thinkers such as Maine de Biran1 and Félix Ravaisson2 in the nineteenth century. David Hume wrote of the ‘extraordinary ’ effects of custom or habit — words which Early …
Hume's 'A Treatise of Human Nature'
David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40) presents the most important account of skepticism in the history of modern philosophy. In this lucid and thorough introduction to the work, John P. Wright examines the development of Hume's ideas in the Treatise, their relation to eighteenth-century theories of the imagination and passions, and the reception they received when Hume published the Treatise. He explains Hume's arguments concerning th…
Lombroso's Legacy
This study examines the extent to which criminal justice and criminology Ph.D. students are exposed to contemporary biological and genetic findings associated with aggression and violence. Drawing on multiple sources of information, we find little evidence showing that Ph.D. students are exposed to any biological research on crime and offending. We examine the consequences for this “trained incompetence” and offer suggestions for remedying this d…
What really annoys me is people take it like it's a disability’, epilepsy, disability and identity among people of Pakistani origin living in the UK
This paper reports on a study of Pakistani people with epilepsy. It explores their attitudes towards their condition, others' attitudes, its impact on their lives, and the extent to which they considered themselves as disabled. Epilepsy was variously interpreted within biomedical, folk and religious paradigms. In line with popular understandings, participants associated disability with stable, permanent and visible physical impairments and did no…
The Treatise
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 …
Psyche and soma
Atoms, Pneuma, and Tranquillity
This volume examines the influence that Epicureanism and Stoicism, two philosophies of nature and human nature articulated during classical times, exerted on the development of European thought to the Enlightenment. Although the influence of these philosophies has often been noted in certain areas, such as the influence of Stoicism on the development of Christian thought and the influence of Epicureanism on modern materialism, the chapters in thi…
Ignorance and Evidence in Hume Scholarship
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Humes Academic Scepticism
A philosopher once wrote the following words: If I examine the PTOLOMAIC and COPERNICAN systems, I endeavour only, by my enquiries, to know the real situation of the planets; that is, in other words, I endeavour to give them, in my conception, the same relations, that they bear towards each other in the heavens. To this operation of the mind, therefore, there seems to be always a real, though often an unknown standard, in the nature of things; no…
The sceptical realism of David Hume
John Locke
Hysteria and Mechanical Man
In this article I contrast 17th and 18th explanations of hysteria including those of Sydenham and Willis with those given by Plato and pre-modern medicine. I show that beginning in the second decade of the 17th century the locus of the disorder was transferred to the nervous system and it was no longer connected with the womb as in Hippocrates and Galen; hysteria became identified with hypochondria, and was a disease contracted by men as well as …
On the consequences of ignoring genetic influences in criminological research
Humes Academic Scepticism
A philosopher once wrote the following words: If I examine the PTOLOMAIC and COPERNICAN systems, I endeavour only, by my enquiries, to know the real situation of the planets; that is, in other words, I endeavour to give them, in my conception, the same relations, that they bear towards each other in the heavens. To this operation of the mind, therefore, there seems to be always a real, though often an unknown standard, in the nature of things; no…
What really annoys me is people take it like it's a disability’, epilepsy, disability and identity among people of Pakistani origin living in the UK
This paper reports on a study of Pakistani people with epilepsy. It explores their attitudes towards their condition, others' attitudes, its impact on their lives, and the extent to which they considered themselves as disabled. Epilepsy was variously interpreted within biomedical, folk and religious paradigms. In line with popular understandings, participants associated disability with stable, permanent and visible physical impairments and did no…
Custom and Habit in Physiology and the Science of Human Nature in the British Enlightenment
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 …
Hysteria and Mechanical Man
In this article I contrast 17th and 18th explanations of hysteria including those of Sydenham and Willis with those given by Plato and pre-modern medicine. I show that beginning in the second decade of the 17th century the locus of the disorder was transferred to the nervous system and it was no longer connected with the womb as in Hippocrates and Galen; hysteria became identified with hypochondria, and was a disease contracted by men as well as …
John Locke
The sceptical realism of David Hume
Humes Academic Scepticism
A philosopher once wrote the following words: If I examine the PTOLOMAIC and COPERNICAN systems, I endeavour only, by my enquiries, to know the real situation of the planets; that is, in other words, I endeavour to give them, in my conception, the same relations, that they bear towards each other in the heavens. To this operation of the mind, therefore, there seems to be always a real, though often an unknown standard, in the nature of things; no…
Ignorance and Evidence in Hume Scholarship
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Atoms, Pneuma, and Tranquillity
This volume examines the influence that Epicureanism and Stoicism, two philosophies of nature and human nature articulated during classical times, exerted on the development of European thought to the Enlightenment. Although the influence of these philosophies has often been noted in certain areas, such as the influence of Stoicism on the development of Christian thought and the influence of Epicureanism on modern materialism, the chapters in thi…
Psyche and soma
The Treatise
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 …
What really annoys me is people take it like it's a disability’, epilepsy, disability and identity among people of Pakistani origin living in the UK
This paper reports on a study of Pakistani people with epilepsy. It explores their attitudes towards their condition, others' attitudes, its impact on their lives, and the extent to which they considered themselves as disabled. Epilepsy was variously interpreted within biomedical, folk and religious paradigms. In line with popular understandings, participants associated disability with stable, permanent and visible physical impairments and did no…
Lombroso's Legacy
This study examines the extent to which criminal justice and criminology Ph.D. students are exposed to contemporary biological and genetic findings associated with aggression and violence. Drawing on multiple sources of information, we find little evidence showing that Ph.D. students are exposed to any biological research on crime and offending. We examine the consequences for this “trained incompetence” and offer suggestions for remedying this d…
Hume's 'A Treatise of Human Nature'
David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40) presents the most important account of skepticism in the history of modern philosophy. In this lucid and thorough introduction to the work, John P. Wright examines the development of Hume's ideas in the Treatise, their relation to eighteenth-century theories of the imagination and passions, and the reception they received when Hume published the Treatise. He explains Hume's arguments concerning th…
Ideas of Habit and Custom in Early Modern Philosophy
There were no single full-length thematic studies of habit during the Early Modern period, though it was discussed in relation to many other topics. Nevertheless, puzzles about habit were posed by many thinkers of this period which were later taken up in the systematic studies of thinkers such as Maine de Biran1 and Félix Ravaisson2 in the nineteenth century. David Hume wrote of the ‘extraordinary ’ effects of custom or habit — words which Early …
Hume on the origin of ‘modern honour’
On the consequences of ignoring genetic influences in criminological research
Hume, David (1711–76)
Biosocial Approaches
Custom and Habit in Physiology and the Science of Human Nature in the British Enlightenment
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 …
The Dr. Norman White special issue on criminal justice scholarship & race
Epistemology (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Enlightenment (4 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)