Logic and the Workings of the Mind: The Logic of Ideas and Faculty Psychology in Early Modern Philosophy

Smith, Kurt, The Review of Metaphysics

EASTON, Patricia A., ed. Logic and the Workings of the Mind: The Logic of Ideas and Faculty Psychology in Early Modern Philosophy. North American Kant Society Studies in Philosophy, vol. 5. Atascadero, California: Ridgeview Publishing Company, 1997. vii + 343 pp. Cloth, $49.00; paper, $27.00--This book is a collection of seventeen first-rate essays, the overall theme of which is to examine the connection between logic and faculty psychology as construed by the philosophers of the modern period.

The first two essays, by Frederick Michael and Gary Hatfield, set the historical and philosophical stage for the essays to follow. Conjointly, Michael and Hatfield argue that the turn …

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Publication information: Article title: Logic and the Workings of the Mind: The Logic of Ideas and Faculty Psychology in Early Modern Philosophy. Contributors: Smith, Kurt - Author. Journal title: The Review of Metaphysics. Volume: 52. Issue: 4 Publication date: June 1999. Page number: 940. © 2009 Philosophy Education Society, Inc. COPYRIGHT 1999 Gale Group.

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