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SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium:  Angela Coventry\, Portland State University: Naturalizing Mind and Religion: Hume\, Darwin and Huxley
DESCRIPTION:Histories of Charles Darwin’s intellectual development typically prioritize two foundational influences: Charles Lyell’s uniformitarian geology and Thomas Malthus’s competitive population mechanics. This paper reveals a critical yet under examined third influence: David Hume’s naturalization of the mind and religion. Drawing on Darwin’s private notebooks from August 1838\, weeks before he encountered Malthus\, I trace how Darwin engaged Hume’s philosophical works to bridge the eighteenth-century naturalization of cognition with the nineteenth-century naturalization of biological life. Hume provided a framework for viewing human mental faculties\, instincts\, and religious beliefs as continuous with the natural order rather than products of divine creation. I map this trajectory from Hume’s account of habit through Darwin’s deep-time inheritance of instinct\, culminating in T.H. Huxley’s neurophysiological model of cerebral reflexes and his public campaign for scientific naturalism. Rather than claiming Hume anticipated natural selection\, I show how Hume\, Darwin\, and Huxley participated in an evolving naturalistic project that systematically undermined natural theology across cognition\, biology\, and religion by demonstrating that mental operations are governed by physical laws. Finally\, I examine how this unified framework ultimately provided later nineteenth-century thinkers\, particularly women evolutionary theorists\, with materials to challenge both theological orthodoxies and Victorian social and gender hierarchies. \nFor more information on Angela Coventry\, visit https://www.pdx.edu/philosophy/profile/angela-coventry
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