![]() ![]() The book’s rich central chapters examine psychology’s complex place in Enlightenment culture. Psychology’s development in the eighteenth century, therefore, becomes a story of remaking existing intellectual frameworks for new purposes: in Vidal’s presenta- tion of the eventual shift away from psychology as a ‘science of the soul’ towards a dis- cipline that prioritised a very different understanding of the mind, Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy, Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding and the work of Christian Wolf play a crucial role. As he puts it, ‘The objects of Aristotelian and post-Aristotelian psychology were different: the soul-form and the soul-mind, respec- tively’ (p. ![]() ![]() Lydia Carroll, In the Fever King's Preserves: Sir Charles Cameron and the Dublin Slums Lydia Carroll, In the Fever King's Preserves: Sir Charles Cameron and the Dublin Slumsīook Reviews 139 crucial to his presentation of psychology’s later development, since the key transition Vidal identifies is between what he terms Aristotelian and post-Aristotelian psychological inquiry after the mid-seventeenth century. ![]()
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