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Human and Animal Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy and Medicine /

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/b...

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Otros Autores: Lo Presti, Roberto (Editor ), Buchenau, Stefanie (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Pare'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.