Habits, Tendencies, and Habitus: The Embodied Soulâs Dispositions of Mind, Body, and Person

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Dispositional and teleological approaches to virtue depend upon one's views of person and nature. Reinterpreting a Thomistic embodied soul within findings of cognitive neuroscience and C.S. Peirce's objective idealism suggests fruitful resonances across mind, body, person, and nature. A turn toward habit as the primary construct for modeling reality identifies interconnected habits as providing sufficient stability for human dynamic processes without requiring a static substrate. Using tendencies to model molecular, physiological, and functional processes of the brain resonates with psychological models of mental habits and the habitus of the socially, historically, and culturally embedded human person. Connecting natural and social science with philosophical and theological investigations around a shared focus on dispositions yields a deep and rich framework for a teleonomic study of virtue.

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Habits in Mind

Integrating Theology, Philosophy, and the Cognitive Science of Virtue, Emotion, and Character Formation

Series:Â Philosophical Studies in Science and Religion, Volume: 7

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004342958

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2017

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Chapter 14 Habits, Tendencies, and Habitus: The Embodied Soulâs Dispositions of Mind, Body, and Person