Human & animal cognition in early modern philosophy & medicine
From the sixteen to the eighteenth century, new anatomical investigations of the brain and the nervous system, together with a renewed interest in comparative anatomy, allowed doctors and philosophers to ground their theories on sense perception, the emergence of human intelligence, and the soul/bod...
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press
cop. 2017
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Introduction / Stefanie Buchenau & Roberto Lo Presti
- part I. Sixteenth-century Aristotelian anthropology between zoology, psychology, & embryology
- 1. Renaissance Aristotelianism & the birth of anthropology / Simone De Angelis
- 2. (Dis)embodied thinking & the scale of beings : Pietro Pomponazzi & Agostino Nifo on the "psychic" processes in men & animals / Roberto Lo Presti
- 3. For Christ's sake : pious notions of the human & animal body in early Jesuit philosophy & theology / Christoph Sander
- 4. Renaissance psychology : Francisco Vallesius (1524-1592) & Otto Casmann (1562-1607) on animal & human souls / Davide Cellamare
- 5. Human & animal generation in Renaissance medical debates / Hiro Hirai
- 6. "Rational surgery" by building on tradition : Ambroise Par{acute}e's conception of "medical" knowledge of the human body / Marie Gaille
- part II. Humans, animals, & the rise of comparative anatomy
- 7. Diseases of the brain seen through Giovanni Battista Morgagni's eyes / Domenico Bertoloni Meli
- 8. Between language, music, & sound : birdsong as a philosophical problem from Aristotle to Kant / Justin E.H. Smith
- 9. Boundary crossings : the blurring of the human/animal divide as naturalization of the soul in early modern philosophy / Charles T. Wolfe
- 10. How animals may help us understand men : Thomas Willis's Anatomy of the brain (1664) & Two Discourses concerning the soules of Brutes (1672) / Claire Crignon
- 11. Political animals in seventeenth-century philosophy : some rival paradigms (Hobbes and Gassendi) / Gianni Paganini
- part III. Eighteenth-century inquiries into the nature of sensibility
- 12. Degrees & forms of sensibility in Haller's physiology / Fran{cedil}cois Duchesneau
- 13. Anthropological medicine & the naturalization of sensibility / Stephen Gaukroger
- 14. Cabanis & the order of interaction / Tobias Cheung
- 15. Self-feeling : Aristotelian patterns in Ernst Platner's Anthropology for physicians and philosophers (1772) / Stefanie Buchenau.
