Anton Wilhelm Amo's Philosophical Dissertations on Mind and Body

ISBN-13: 9780197501627 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 252 str.

Stephen Menn; Justin E. H. Smith

Recenzje

Amo, an 18th century philosopher from Africa who was trained in Europe and taught in Wittenberg, is little known among contemporary scholars. Yet his philosophy, as well as his biography, is fascinating. It's terrific to have a high quality modern edition of his work. The editors' well-developed introduction addresses matters of biography, reception, political and intellectual context, generic conventions, philosophical background, and provides a summary of Amo's arguments. This book will be used widely. Many of us are seeking to do a better job of conveying to students the global networks that have constituted philosophy across the centuries. Many will surely avail themselves of the opportunity to include Amo on a syllabus.

O autorze

Stephen Menn is James McGill Professor of Philosophy at McGill University in Montreal and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He works mainly on ancient Greek and medieval Arabic and Latin philosophy and science, and on the history and philosophy of mathematics. Justin E. H. Smith is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Paris. He works mainly on Leibniz, Rationalism, and the history of metaphysics and natural philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.