Philosophy of Mind in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance: The History of the Philosophy of Mind, Volume 3

ISBN-13: 9780367734145 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 322 str.

Stephan Schmid

Opis

Characterized by many historically significant events, such as the invention of the printing press, the discovery of the New World, and the Protestant Reformation, the years between 1300 and 1600 are a remarkably rich source of ideas about the mind. Philosophy of Mind in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance provides an outstanding surve

Spis treści

General introduction Rebecca Copenhaver and Christopher Shields Introduction to volume 3: Aristotelianism, Humanism, and Platonism – three pillars for thinking about the mind Stephan Schmid  1. Mind and method Dominik Perler  2. Medical approaches to the mind in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance Guido Giglioni  3. The soul and its parts: debates about the powers of the soul Paul J.J.M. Bakker  4. Averroism and the metaphysics of intellect Jean-Baptiste Brenet  5. The function of the intellect: intentionality and representationalism Paolo Rubini  6. Late medieval theories of (self-)consciousness Sonja Schierbaum  7. Debates about the will and its freedom Sydney Penner  8. Late scholastic debates about external and internal senses: in the direction of Francisco Suárez (1548–1617) Daniel Heider  9. Renaissance theories of the passions: embodied minds Sabrina Ebbersmeyer  10. Dualism and the mind-body problem Sander W. de Boer  11. The immortality of the soul Lorenzo Casini  12. Late scholastics and Renaissance humanists on the passions in moral action Eileen C. Sweeney  13. Renaissance facultative logic and the workings of the mind: the "cognitive turn" Marco Sgarbi  Index

O autorze

Stephan Schmid is Professor for the History of Philosophy at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He mainly works on Late Medieval and Early Modern philosophy, focusing on debates in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind, with a special interest in how these discussions are carried forward in present-day analytic philosophy. He has published on Aquinas, Scotus, Ockham, Suárez, Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche, and Hume and is the author of Finalursachen in der frühen Neuzeit (2011).