Habits Between Sensibility and Action. Rethinking the Double Law of Habit
open access | peer reviewed-
edited by
- Roberta Dreon - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
- Marco Piazza - Università Roma Tre - email
The current issue emerges from a collaborative research context on the philosophy of habits. It is part of a wider project supported by the Italian Ministry of University, entitled Habits (in Time) of Crisis. Conceptual Tools for Dealing with Disruptive Events (PRIN 2022), and is situated among the numerous scholarly activities carried out by the Interuniversity Centre for Habit Studies, known as PhilHabits. It is within this context that the idea of revisiting the so-called double law of habits first emerged. The idea of reconsidering this subject originally arose from a conversation between the authors of this preface and the editors of the current issue. The comparison of different viewpoints and theoretical frameworks revealed that such an exchange can generate crises – large or small – in our habitual ways of thinking, and that these crises can be potentially productive.
Keywords Ricœur • Choice • Imagination • Language • Learning • Practical philosophy • Automatism • Meaning • Customs • Training • Mysticism • Aristotle • William James • Law of habit • Maine de Biran • Perception • Sensibility • De Anima • Joseph Butler • Contingency action • Spontaneity • Wittgenstein • Deliberation • Ravaisson • Habituation • Double law of habit • Habit • Aristotle’s psychology • Aristotle’s epistemology • David Hartley • French Philosophy
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