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The Embodied Soul

Aristotelian Psychology and Physiology in Medieval Europe between 1200 and 1420

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Editors:
  1. Marek Gensler

    1. University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland

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  2. Monika Mansfeld

    1. University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland

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  3. Monika Michałowska

    1. Medical University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland

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  • Shows pre-Cartesian History of the Mind – Body Problem
  • Explores the Corporeal Aspect of Medieval Anthropology
  • Seeks to Assess the Position of Physiology in Medieval Learning

Part of the book series: Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action (HSNA, volume 11)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. The Development of Aristotelian Psychology and Physiology in Medieval Europe Between 1200 and 1420: Introduction

    • Marek Gensler, Monika Mansfeld, Monika Michałowska
    Pages 1-15

  3. Physiology of Taste and Intentionality in John Blund’s Tractatus De Anima

    • Riccardo Fedriga
    Pages 17-35

  4. Anthropology of Gilbertus Anglicus’ Compendium medicinae

    • Agnieszka Kijewska
    Pages 37-56

  5. A Stain on the Bronze: Some Medieval Latin Commentators on De insomniis 2, 459b23–460a32

    • Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist
    Pages 57-71

  6. Pygmies, Twins, Monsters: Human Nature and Its Borderlines in Albert the Great

    • Evelina Miteva
    Pages 73-90

  7. Why Philosophers Father Foolish Children: Peter of Spain, Albert the Great, and James of Viterbo on the Transmission of Intellectual Qualities

    • Mario Loconsole
    Pages 91-113

  8. Bodily Prerequisites of the Mind: The Spirit as the Highest Product of Digestion

    • Marilena Panarelli
    Pages 115-132

  9. The Role of the Intentio Individualis in Albert the Great’s Sense Perception Theory

    • Paloma Hernández-Rubio
    Pages 133-161

  10. Death, the Intellect and the Resurrection of the Dog: Geoffrey of Aspall’s Questions on the De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae

    • Michael W. Dunne
    Pages 163-190

  11. Medieval Views on the Subject of Thought and the Intellectual Soul

    • Cecilia Trifogli
    Pages 191-211

  12. A Medieval Defence of Innatism: The Case of James of Viterbo

    • Martin Pickavé
    Pages 213-227

  13. The World of Senses. On the Process of Cognition in Walter Burley

    • Monika Mansfeld
    Pages 229-251

  14. “Is Touch One Sense or Several?” A Late Medieval Scientific Question

    • Chiara Beneduce
    Pages 253-275

  15. Buridan Wycliffised? The Nature of the Intellect in Late Medieval Prague University Disputations

    • Lukáš Lička
    Pages 277-310Open Access

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 311-320
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland

    Marek Gensler, Monika Mansfeld

  • Medical University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland

    Monika Michałowska

About the editors

Marek Gensler, professor of Philosophy at the University of Łódź. 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 Łódź 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 Michałowska, university professor at the Medical University of Łódź. 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 onthe Sentences.



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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Embodied Soul

  • Book Subtitle: Aristotelian Psychology and Physiology in Medieval Europe between 1200 and 1420

  • Editors: Marek Gensler, Monika Mansfeld, Monika Michałowska

  • Series Title: Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99453-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99452-5Published: 02 June 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99455-6Published: 03 June 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99453-2Published: 01 June 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2509-4793

  • Series E-ISSN: 2509-4807

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 320

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Nature

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