Forming the Mind (eBook)

Essays on the Internal Senses and the Mind/Body Problem from Avicenna to the Medical Enlightenment

Henrik Lagerlund (Herausgeber)

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2007 | 2007
X, 346 Seiten
Springer Netherland (Verlag)
978-1-4020-6084-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This book deals with the internal senses, the mind/body problem and other problems associated with the concept of mind as it developed from Avicenna to the medical Enlightenment. The book collects essays from scholars in this promising field of research. It brings together scholars working on the same issues in the Arabic, Jewish and Western philosophical traditions. This collection opens up new and interesting perspectives.

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Forming the Mind deals with the internal senses, the mind/body problem and other problems associated with the concept of mind as it developed from Avicenna to the medical Enlightenment. The book collects essays from some of the foremost scholars in a relatively new and very promising field of research. It stresses how important and fruitful it is to see the time period between 1100 and 1700 as one continuous tradition, and brings together scholars working on the same issues in the Arabic, Jewish and Western philosophical traditions. In this respect, this collection opens up several new and interesting perspectives on the history of the philosophy of mind.

Inhalt

TABLE OF CONTENTS 6
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 8
PREFACE 10
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION: THE MIND/BODY PROBLEM AND LATE MEDIEVAL CONCEPTIONS OF THE SOUL 11
CHAPTER TWO MEMORY AND RECOLLECTION IN IBN SÎNÂ’S AND IBN RUSHD’S PHILOSOPHICAL TEXTS TRANSLATED INTO LATIN IN THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES: A PERSPECTIVE ON THE DOCTRINE OF THE INTERNAL SENSES IN ARABIC PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE 26
CHAPTER THREE IMAGINATION AND EXPERIENCE IN THE SENSORY SOUL AND BEYOND: RICHARD RUFUS, ROGER BACON & THEIR CONTEMPORARIES
CHAPTER FOUR THE SOUL AS AN ENTITY: DANTE, AQUINAS, AND OLIVI 67
CHAPTER FIVE SELF- KNOWLEDGE AND COGNITIVE ASCENT: THOMAS AQUINAS AND PETER OLIVI ON THE KK– THESIS 101
CHAPTER SIX THE INVENTION OF SINGULAR THOUGHT 117
CHAPTER SEVEN JOHN BURIDAN ON THE IMMATERIALITY OF THE INTELLECT 137
CHAPTER EIGHT HOW MATTER BECOMES MIND: LATE- MEDIEVAL THEORIES OF EMERGENCE 156
CHAPTER NINE PASSIONS AND OLD MEN IN RENAISSANCE GERONTOLOGY 175
CHAPTER TEN WHY ISN’T THE MIND- BODY PROBLEM MEDIEVAL? 193
CHAPTER ELEVEN MATTER, MIND, AND HYLOMORPHISM IN IBN GABIROL AND SPINOZA 212
CHAPTER TWELVE CAJETAN AND SUAREZ ON AGENT SENSE: METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY IN LATE ARISTOTELIAN THOUGHT 241
CHAPTER THIRTEEN IS DESCARTES’ BODY A MODE OF MIND? 267
CHAPTER FOURTEEN MIND AND EXTENSION ( DESCARTES, HOBBES, MORE) 286
CHAPTER FIFTEEN EMOTIONAL PATHOLOGIES AND REASON IN FRENCH MEDICAL ENLIGHTENMENT 314
BIBLIOGRAPHY 329
NAME INDEX 344

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.7.2007
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind
• Zusatzinfo: X, 346 p.
• Verlagsort: Dordrecht
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
• Schlagworte: Arabic Philosophy • Early modern philosophy • Internal Senses • Jewish philosophy • Medieval Philosophy • Metaphysics • Mind/Body Problem • Philosophy of mind • Spinoza • Thomas Aquinas
• ISBN-10: 1-4020-6084-X / 140206084X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4020-6084-7 / 9781402060847