The Embodied Soul (eBook)

Aristotelian Psychology and Physiology in Medieval Europe between 1200 and 1420

Marek Gensler, Monika Mansfeld, Monika Michałowska (Herausgeber)

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2022 | 1st ed. 2022
VIII, 320 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-99453-2 (ISBN)

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This book contains a collection of papers devoted to the problems of body, mind and soul in medieval Europe between 1200 and 1420. Modern discussions of the mind-body relationship seldom look back into the past further than the psycho-somatic dualism of Descartes which started the mechanistic approach in biology and medicine. The authors of the volume go beyond that fault line to investigate the tradition of medieval natural philosophy and its ancient sources and analyze the issues forming a borderland between physiology and psychology. They also demonstrate that the medieval tradition was rich and diverse for it offered a wide variety of the discussed problems as well as the methodological approaches. This volume is the first attempt to cover a diversity of topics and methods employed in the medieval debates on body, mind and soul as well as their interrelationships. The Embodied Soul is a must-have for all those interested in puzzling dilemmas of how a living organism functions and how its inner life can be explained as well as for all those interested in the history of thought in general.

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Marek Gensler, professor of Philosophy at the University of Lódz. He specializes in history of medieval philosophy, focusing on philosophy of nature in the fourteenth-century philosophy. He has published several studies on Antonius Andreae and Walter Burley, and critical editions.

 

Monika Mansfeld, postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Philosophy and History at the University of Lódz in Poland. In her work, she focuses on the late medieval philosophical commentaries on Aristotle's works, especially on logic and metaphysics of so-called Parisian nominalism and realist natural philosophy.

 

Monika Michalowska, university professor at the Medical University of Lódz. Her research focuses on late medieval ethics and theology, especially concepts of the will. She works on Richard Kilvington's philosophy and theology. She has published critical editions of Richard Kilvington's Questions on the Ethics and on the Sentences.

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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action
• Reihe/Serie: Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action
• Zusatzinfo: VIII, 320 p. 1 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: History of Medieval Natural Philosophy • Human Reproduction • Medieval Psychology and Physiology • Mind-Body relation • Senses and Sense Perception Medieval Models • Theories of the Intellect
• ISBN-10: 3-030-99453-8 / 3030994538
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-99453-2 / 9783030994532