Charles Bonnet, Analytical Essay on the Faculties of the Soul

In the course of the eighteenth century, understanding human cognitive life came to be construed as something to be explored in terms of the physiology of the sensory organs, the nerves, and the brain: a form of naturalization that effectively moved cognition out of the realm of philosophy as it had traditionally been understood. Bonnet''s Analytical Essay on the Faculties of the Soul was at the f...