Overview
- Offers a comprehensive account of late-medieval nominalist psychology and metaphysics of the soul
- Serves as companion to John Buridan's question-commentary on Aristotle’s On the Soul
- Surveys Buridan’s work both in its historical-theoretical context and in relation to contemporary issues
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action (HSNA, volume 3)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Buridan Agent Intellect
- Buridan Common Sense
- Buridan Hylomorphism
- Buridan Intelligible Species
- Buridan Intentions
- Buridan Phantasms
- Buridan Sensible Species
- Buridan Substantial Form
- Buridan Soul
- John Buridan
- Medieval Psychology
- Metaphysics of the soul
- Buridan Dualism
- Buridan Materialism
- Buridan Aristotle
- Buridan Questions
About this book
This volume features essays that explore the insights of the 14th-century Parisian nominalist philosopher, John Buridan. It serves as a companion to the Latin text edition and annotated English translation of his question-commentary on Aristotle’s On the Soul. The contributors survey Buridan’s work both in its own historical-theoretical context and in relation to contemporary issues.
The essays come in three main sections, which correspond to the three books of Buridan’s Questions. Coverage first deals with the classification of the science of the soul within the system of Aristotelian sciences, and surveys the main issues within it.
The next section examines the metaphysics of the soul. It considers Buridan’s peculiar version of Aristotelian hylomorphism in dealing with the problem of what kind of entity the soul (in particular, the human soul) is, and what powers and actions it has, on the basis of which we can approach the question of its essence.
The volume concludes with a look at Buridan’s doctrine of the nature and functions of the human intellect. Coverage in this section includes the problem of self-knowledge in Buridan’s theory, Buridan’s answer to the traditional medieval problem concerning the primary object of the intellect, and his unique treatment of logical problems in psychological contexts.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Gyula Klima is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, New York, NY. He is the founder-director of the international Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, and the editor of its Proceedings, published by Cambridge Scholars. Professor Klima’s books include Ars Artium: Essays in Philosophical Semantics, Medieval and Modern (Hungarian Academy, 1988), John Buridan: Summulae de Dialectica (Yale, 2001); Medieval Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary (Blackwell, 2007), John Buridan (Oxford, 2009); Intentionality, Cognition and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy (Fordham, 2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Questions on the Soul by John Buridan and Others
Book Subtitle: A Companion to John Buridan's Philosophy of Mind
Editors: Gyula Klima
Series Title: Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51763-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51762-9Published: 10 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84734-4Published: 07 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51763-6Published: 30 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2509-4793
Series E-ISSN: 2509-4807
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 295
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Medieval Philosophy, Cognitive Psychology, History of Science, Philosophy of Mind, History of Psychology