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Psychology, the discourse on the soul, had not yet established itself as a distinct discipline, but a wide variety of topics on the mind were fruitfully discussed in many fields of science, including medicine. This chapter, “Fiber Psychology,” briefly outlines how the medical philosophers coped with the aporia of mind-and-body dualism by treating the two strands of fiber psychology: the vibration theory and the brain-trace theory.
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Ishizuka, H. (2016). Interlude: Fiber Psychology. In: Fiber, Medicine, and Culture in the British Enlightenment. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-93268-9_5
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