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Subjectivity and Selfhood in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy

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Editors:
  1. Jari Kaukua

    1. Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

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  2. Tomas Ekenberg

    1. Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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  • Offers a new perspective on historical discussions of human subjectivity and agency
  • Bridges the gap between medieval and early modern philosophy
  • Combines discussions from both the Latin and the Arabic traditions

Part of the book series: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind (SHPM, volume 16)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Subjectivity and Selfhood in the History of Philosophy

    • Jari Kaukua, Tomas Ekenberg
    Pages 1-7

  3. Augustine on Second-Order Desires and Persons

    • Tomas Ekenberg
    Pages 9-24

  4. The Augustinian Cogito and Materialist Theories of Mind

    • Tamer Nawar
    Pages 25-35

  5. Sources of the Self in the Arabic Tradition: Remarks on the Avicennan Turn

    • Taneli Kukkonen
    Pages 37-60

  6. Avicenna on Non-conceptual Content and Self-Awareness in Non-human Animals

    • Luis Xavier López-Farjeat
    Pages 61-73

  7. Self, Agent, Soul: Abū al-Barakāt al-Baghdādī’s Critical Reception of Avicennian Psychology

    • Jari Kaukua
    Pages 75-89

  8. “Causa sui”: Awareness and Choice in the Constitution of the Self

    • Calvin Normore
    Pages 91-107

  9. Aping Logic? Albert the Great on Animal Mind and Action

    • Jörg Alejandro Tellkamp
    Pages 109-123

  10. The Reflexivity of Incorporeal Acts as Source of Freedom and Subjectivity in Aquinas

    • Therese Scarpelli Cory
    Pages 125-141

  11. Subjective Experience and Self-Knowledge: Chatton’s Approach and Its Problems

    • Sonja Schierbaum
    Pages 143-156

  12. Self-Awareness and Perception in Augustinian Epistemology

    • José Filipe Silva
    Pages 157-179

  13. Beasts, Human Beings, or Gods? Human Subjectivity in Medieval Political Philosophy

    • Juhana Toivanen
    Pages 181-197

  14. Martin Luther’s Early Theological Anthropology: From Parts of the Soul to the Human Person as One Subject

    • Ilmari Karimies
    Pages 199-218

  15. A Bodily Sense of Self in Descartes and Malebranche

    • Colin Chamberlain
    Pages 219-234

  16. A View from Nowhere? The Place of Subjectivity in Spinoza’s Rationalism

    • Julia Borcherding
    Pages 235-261

  17. Reflection and Rationality in Leibniz

    • Sebastian Bender
    Pages 263-275

  18. Hume on the Self and His ‘Overall Philosophical Scheme’

    • Udo Thiel
    Pages 277-290

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 291-295
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About this book

This book is a collection of studies on topics related to subjectivity and selfhood in medieval and early modern philosophy. The individual contributions approach the theme from a number of angles varying from cognitive and moral psychology to metaphysics and epistemology. Instead of a complete overview on the historical period, the book provides detailed glimpses into some of the most important figures of the period, such as Augustine, Avicenna, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz and Hume. The questions addressed include the ethical problems of the location of one's true self and the proper distribution of labour between desire, passion and reason, and the psychological tasks of accounting for subjective experience and self-knowledge and determining different types of self-awareness.

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“This is a collection of essays presented at a conference held at the University of Uppsala in August 2012 entitled ‘Subjectivity, Selfhood, and Agency in the Arabic and Latin Traditions.’ … Any scholar of medieval or early modern epistemology or philosophy of mind would be well-served by a careful reading of these papers.” (Eric Hagedorn, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, ndpr.nd.edu, September, 2016)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Jari Kaukua

  • Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Tomas Ekenberg

About the editors

Jari Kaukua is an Academy of Finland research fellow at the University of Jyväskylä. An expert in classical and post-classical Arabic philosophy, he is the author of Self-Awareness in Islamic Philosophy (Cambridge University Press), and has published a number of articles in leading journals of medieval philosophy, including Vivarium and Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale. Tomas Ekenberg is a docent of theoretical philosophy at Uppsala University, Sweden. He specializes in early medieval metaphysics, theories of action and philosophical psychology and their origins in late ancient thought. He has published several articles about Anselm of Canterbury and Augustine of Hippo. Among his recent publications is a contribution to the anthology Augustine's Confessions: Philosophy in Autobiography, edited by William Mann (OUP 2014).

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