Overview
- Provides a comprehensive collection of sources on the medieval philosophy of animal minds
- Makes accessible a wide range of Latin key texts from the fourth to the fourteenth century in English translations
- Offers fresh insight into how the Middle Ages dealt with questions related to animal cognition, emotions, and volitions
Part of the book series: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind (SHPM, volume 27)
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Cognition
Keywords
- Animal Cognition in Medieval Philosophy
- Animal Minds in Medieval Philosophy
- Animal Minds in the Middle Ages
- Perception, Knowledge, and Reason in Animals
- Estimation and Concept Formation in Animals
- Memory, Learning, and Prudence in Animals
- Reasoning, Learning, and Language in Animals
- Universal Cognition among animals
- Goal-Directed Behaviour in Animals
- Friendship, Enmity, and Fear in Animals
- Animal Emotions
- Lust and Anger in Animals
- Judging and Free Choice in Animals
- Instinct and Deliberation in Animals
- Animal Rationality
About this book
This sourcebook explores how the Middle Ages dealt with questions related to the mental life of creatures great and small. It makes accessible a wide range of key Latin texts from the fourth to the fourteenth century in fresh English translations. Specialists and non-specialists alike will find many surprising insights in this comprehensive collection of sources on the medieval philosophy of animal minds.
The book’s structure follows the distinction between the different aspects of the mental. The author has organized the material in three main parts: cognition, emotions, and volition. Each part contains translations of texts by different medieval thinkers. The philosophers chosen include well-known figures like Augustine, Albert the Great, and Thomas Aquinas. The collection also profiles the work of less studied thinkers like John Blund, (Pseudo-)Peter of Spain, and Peter of Abano. In addition, among those featured are several translated here into English for the first time.
Each text comes with a short introduction to the philosopher, the context, and the main arguments of the text plus a section with bibliographical information and recommendations for further reading. A general introduction to the entire volume presents the basic concepts and questions of the philosophy of animal minds and explains how the medieval discussion relates to the contemporary debate. This sourcebook is valuable for anyone interested in the history of philosophy, especially medieval philosophy of mind. It will also appeal to scholars and students from other fields, such as psychology, theology, and cultural studies.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Anselm Oelze (PhD Humboldt University of Berlin, 2017) worked as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki and as teaching fellow in philosophy at the LMU Munich. He is author of the book Animal Rationality: Later Medieval Theories 1250-1350 (Brill, 2018) and of articles on animal cognition and animal ethics in the Middle Ages.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Animal Minds in Medieval Latin Philosophy
Book Subtitle: A Sourcebook from Augustine to Wodeham
Authors: Anselm Oelze
Series Title: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67012-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67011-5Published: 09 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67014-6Published: 10 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67012-2Published: 02 April 2021
Series ISSN: 1573-5834
Series E-ISSN: 2542-9922
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 212
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Medieval Philosophy