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William James and 18th-century anthropology: Holism, scepticism and the doctrine of experience (2018)
Journal Article
Carroll, J. (2018). William James and 18th-century anthropology: Holism, scepticism and the doctrine of experience. History of the Human Sciences, 31(3), 3-20. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695118764060

This article discusses the common ground between William James and the tradition of philosophical anthropology. Recent commentators on this overlap have characterised philosophical anthropology as combining science (in particular biology and medicine... Read More about William James and 18th-century anthropology: Holism, scepticism and the doctrine of experience.

Philosophical aesthetics and philosophical anthropology at the turn of the nineteenth century: holism, expressivism, and antipathy to separation (2016)
Journal Article
Carroll, J. (2016). Philosophical aesthetics and philosophical anthropology at the turn of the nineteenth century: holism, expressivism, and antipathy to separation. Publications of the English Goethe Society, 85(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2016.1162578

This article discusses the relationship between philosophical anthropology and philosophical aesthetics at the turn of the nineteenth century, and the connection of both with literature and the novel form in particular as it develops in the late eigh... Read More about Philosophical aesthetics and philosophical anthropology at the turn of the nineteenth century: holism, expressivism, and antipathy to separation.