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Flights in the resting places: James and Bergson on mental synthesis and the experience of time (2022)
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Dunham, J. (2023). Flights in the resting places: James and Bergson on mental synthesis and the experience of time. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 31(2), 183-204. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2022.2136138

The similarities between William James’ Stream of Consciousness and Henri Bergson’s La durée réelle have often been noted. Both emphasize the fundamentally temporal nature of our conscious experience and its constant flow. However, in this article, I... Read More about Flights in the resting places: James and Bergson on mental synthesis and the experience of time.

On the Experience of Activity: William James's Late Metaphysics and the Influence of Nineteenth-Century French Spiritualism (2020)
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Dunham, J. (2020). On the Experience of Activity: William James's Late Metaphysics and the Influence of Nineteenth-Century French Spiritualism. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 58(2), 267-291. https://doi.org/10.1353/hph.2020.0039

Is there a particular experience-type associated with the exercise of agency? This question was subject to lively philosophical debate in nineteenth-century France. William James paid close attention to these debates, and for most of his academic lif... Read More about On the Experience of Activity: William James's Late Metaphysics and the Influence of Nineteenth-Century French Spiritualism.

Overcoming the Divide between Freedom and Nature: Clarisse Coignet on the Metaphysics of Independent Morality (2019)
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Dunham, J. (2020). Overcoming the Divide between Freedom and Nature: Clarisse Coignet on the Metaphysics of Independent Morality. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 28(5), 987-1008. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2019.1668351

Clarisse Coignet (1823-1918) played an important role in a number of the most important intellectual movements in nineteenth-century France. She grew up around and documented the leaders of the Fourierist movement, provided the philosophical support... Read More about Overcoming the Divide between Freedom and Nature: Clarisse Coignet on the Metaphysics of Independent Morality.

Habits of Mind: A Brand New Condillac (2019)
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Dunham, J. (2019). Habits of Mind: A Brand New Condillac. https://doi.org/10.32881/jomp.11

Is there anything in the mind that was not first in the senses? According to the received view, the French empiricist Étienne Bonnot de Condillac’s (1714–1780) answer to this was a firm “No”. Unlike Locke, who accepted the existence of innate faculti... Read More about Habits of Mind: A Brand New Condillac.

Offsetting Race Privilege (2017)
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Dunham, J., & Lawford-Smith, H. (2017). Offsetting Race Privilege. Journal of ethics & social philosophy, 11(2), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v11i2.109

For all the talk lately about privilege, few have commented on the moral obligations associated with having privilege. Those who have commented have not gone much beyond the idea that the privileged should be conscious of their privilege and should l... Read More about Offsetting Race Privilege.

Monadologies: An Historical Overview (2015)
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Dunham, J., & Phemister, P. (2015). Monadologies: An Historical Overview. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 23(6), 1023-1032. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2015.1111191

This introductory overview comprises (i) a brief account of Leibniz's own monadology; (ii) a discussion of the reception of his philosophy up to Kant; and (iii) a short overview of the monadologies developed after Kant's first Critique, made via a su... Read More about Monadologies: An Historical Overview.

From Habit to Monads: Félix Ravaisson’s Theory of Substance. (2015)
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Dunham, J. (2015). From Habit to Monads: Félix Ravaisson’s Theory of Substance. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 23(6), 1085-1105. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2015.1078775

In this article, I argue that in his 1838 De l'habitude, Félix Ravaisson uses the analysis of habit to defend a Leibnizian monadism. Recent commentators have failed to appreciate this because they read Ravaisson as a typically post-Kantian philosophe... Read More about From Habit to Monads: Félix Ravaisson’s Theory of Substance..

Idealism, Pragmatism, and the Will to Believe: Charles Renouvier and William James. (2015)
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Dunham, J. (2015). Idealism, Pragmatism, and the Will to Believe: Charles Renouvier and William James. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 23(4), 756-778. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2014.1002074

This article investigates the history of the relation between idealism and pragmatism by examining the importance of the French idealist Charles Renouvier for the development of William James's ‘Will to Believe’. By focusing on French idealism, we ob... Read More about Idealism, Pragmatism, and the Will to Believe: Charles Renouvier and William James..

Was James Ward a Cambridge Pragmatist? (2014)
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Dunham, J. (2014). Was James Ward a Cambridge Pragmatist?. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 22(3), 557-581. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2014.928609

Although the Cambridge Professor of Mental Philosophy and Logic James Ward was once one of Britain's most highly regarded Psychologists and Philosophers, today his work is unjustly neglected. This is because his philosophy is frequently misrepresente... Read More about Was James Ward a Cambridge Pragmatist?.