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Physiology of the haunted mind : naturalistic theories of apparitions in early nineteenth-century Scotland

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06/11/2020
Author
Jenkins, Bill
Keywords
B Philosophy (General)
DA Great Britain
T-NDAS
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Abstract
The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw a resurgence of interest in the supernatural in Scotland as elsewhere in the United Kingdom. A number of intellectual figures responded by proposing naturalistic explanations for supernatural phenomena, drawing on the legacy of Scottish Enlightenment philosophy. These included the geologist and antiquarian Samuel Hibbert and the phrenologist George Combe. This paper explores the interrelations between these theories, their roots in the troubled cultural politics of Scotland in the early nineteenth century, and the reaction of different protagonists in the cultural conflicts of the period to their ideas.
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Jenkins , B 2020 , ' Physiology of the haunted mind : naturalistic theories of apparitions in early nineteenth-century Scotland ' , Journal of the History of Ideas , vol. 81 , no. 4 , pp. 577-597 . https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2020.0033
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Journal of the History of Ideas
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2020.0033
ISSN
0022-5037
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2020 Journal of the History of Ideas. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2020.0033.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/21239

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