Self-feeling : Aristotelian patterns in Ernst Platner's Anthropology for physicians and philosophers (1772) / Stefanie Buchenau. 15. 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 Paré'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 / François 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.
Summary:
From the sixteenth 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/body relationship in modern science. They investigated the anatomical structures and the physiological processes underlying the rise, differentiation, and articulation of human cognitive activities, and looked for the "anatomical roots" of the specificity of human intelligence when compared to other forms of animal sensibility. This edited volume focuses on medical and philosophical debates on human intelligence and animal perception in the early modern age, providing fresh insights into the influence of medical discourse on the rise of modern philosophical anthropology. Contributions from distinguished historians of philosophy and medicine focus on sixteenth-century zoological, psychological, and embryological discourses on man; the impact of mechanism and comparative anatomy on philosophical conceptions of body and soul; and the key status of sensibility in the medical and philosophical enlightenment. --book jacket.
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