Inner Music: Hobbes, Hooke and North on Internal Character

By Jamie Kassler

Musical instruments have been used as models for understanding the human character from the 17th century onwards. The author explores the implications of this model: how someone's character plays or is played upon, as well as the kinds of music it plays. This concept has contributed significantly to the development of theory in the bio-medical, neuro and cognitive sciences, and this account provides an important chapter in the history of the philosophy of science.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0013AY6EM
• ISBN13: 9780485114072
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Athlone Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.