The Embodied Soul

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. Chapter 14 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Autorentext

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. .

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Physiology of Taste and Intentional Internalism in John Blund's Tractatus De Anima (Riccardo Fedriga).- Chapter 2. Why Do Philosophers Generate Foolish Children? Peter of Spain, Albert the Great and James of Viterbo on the Transmission of Intellectual Qualities (Mario Loconsole).- Chapter 3.Pygmies, Twins, Monsters: Human Nature on Its Borderline in Albert the Great (Evelina Miteva).- Chapter 4. The Role of the Intentio Individualis in Albert the Great's Sense Perception Theory (Paloma Hernández-Rubio).- Chapter 5. A Stain on the Bronze: Some Medieval Latin Commentators on De insomniis 2, 459b23-460a32 (Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist).- Chapter 6. Death, the Intellect and the Resurrection of the Dog. Geoffrey of Aspall's Questions on the De longitudine et brevitate vitae (Michael W Dunne).- Chapter 7. Aquinas on the Union of Body and Soul (Gyula Klima).- Chapter 8. Thomas Aquinas on the Scope of the Will (Can Laurens Löwe).- Chapter 9. Medieval Views on the Subject of Thought and the Intellectual Soul (Cecilia Trifogli).- Chapter 10. A Medieval Defense of Innatism: the Case of James of Viterbo (Martin Picavé).- Chapter 11. "Is Touch One Sense or is It Several Senses?" A Late Medieval Scientific Question (Chiara Beneduce).- Chapter 12. The World of Senses. On the Process of Cognition in Walter Burley LukáS Licka, Buridan Wycliffised? The Nature of the Intellect in Late Medieval Prague University Disputations (Monika Mansfeld).