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This is a multi-disciplinary exploration of the history of understanding of the human mind or soul and its relationship to the body, through the course of more than two thousand years. Thirteen specially commissioned chapters, each written by a recognized expert, discuss such figures as the doctors Hippocrates and Galen, the theologians St Paul, Augustine, and Aquinas, and philosophers from Plato to Leibniz.

Note biographique

John P. Wright is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, Central Michigan University. Paul Potter is Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario.

Table des matières

• Introduction


• 1: Beate Gundert: Soma and Psyche in Hippocratic Medicine


• 2: T. M. Robinson: The Defining Features of Mind-Body Dualism in the Writings of Plato


• 3: Philip J. van der Eijk: Aristotle's Psycho-physiological Account of the Soul-Body Relationship


• 4: Heinrich von Staden: Body, Soul, and Nerves: Epicurus, Herophilus, Erasistratus, the Stoics, and Galen


• 5: Theo K. Heckel: Body and Soul in Saint Paul


• 6: Gareth Matthews: Internalist Reasoning in Augustine for Mind-Body Dualism


• 7: Emily Michael: Renaissance Theories of Body, Soul, and Mind


• 8: Stephen Voss: Descartes: Heart and Soul


• 9: Thomas M. Lennon: Bayle and Late Seventeen-Century Thought


• 10: Francois Duchesneau: Stahl, Leibniz, and the Territories of Soul and Body


• 11: John P. Wright: Substance versus Function Dualism in Eighteenth-Century Medicine


• 12: Roselyne Rey: Psyche, Soma, and the Vitalist Philosophy of Medicine


• 13: Francois Azouvi: Physique and Moral


• Select Bibliography


• Index

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