Influence of Habit on the Faculty of Thinking

by Pierre Maine de Biran

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Genres: Philosophy

227 pages, Hardcover

First published April 6, 1970

About the author

François-Pierre-Gontier de Biran (French: [mɛn də biʁɑ̃]; 29 November 1766 – 20 July 1824), usually known as Maine de Biran, was a French philosopher.

Reviews

[Grace Yeo · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm the first ever person to write a review for this book! Cool. I read this for a class and I think it's chief relevance was a) what 18th century philosophers thought of thinking (ha.) b) how Maine de Biran's philosophy would later go on to influence Henri Bergson, whose Time and Free Will I'm looking forward to reading. I thought that the most impressive part of the book though was the section on representational memory, where Maine de Biran more or less proposed a computational theory of the mind. Now, I'm not familiar with the history of cognitive science, but I'm guessing that Maine de Biran was probably one of the earliest thinkers to propose some form of the computational theory of the mind. An 18th century theory is still being used by cognitive scientists today. Mind-boggling.