No adequate genealogy of the mind-nature distinction has ever been written

Evidence

The inviolability is such that with all the shelves in all the libraries in Western academia, there is not yet anything like a coherent, extensive, or even reasonably adequate narrative of the genealogy of the Distinction, or of the conditions of felicity that made it so powerful and performative. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 361

Categorization

  • QUESTION: Is this claim actually true? A strong, checkable claim — the history of the subject-object split has been told (e.g. by Collingwood, or in the tradition after Burtt). Worth testing.
  • SEED: Angle: ‘the gap nobody has narrated’ — a piece on why the foundational conceptual distinction of modern science remains genealogically unexamined, and what writing its history would require.