The Embodied Soul: Aristotelian Psychology and Physiology in Medieval Europe between 1200 and 1420 (Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action, 11)

Preface
Contents
Chapter 1: The Development of Aristotelian Psychology and Physiology in Medieval Europe Between 1200 and 1420: Introduction
	1.1 Introduction
	1.2 The First Phase: Aristotle’s De anima and Avicenna’s Liber sextus naturalium
	1.3 The Second Phase: Parva Naturalia’s Translatio Vetus and Averroes’s Commentaries
	1.4 The Third Phase: The Reception of the Last Wave of Translations
	References
Chapter 2: Physiology of Taste and Intentionality in John Blund’s Tractatus De Anima
	2.1 On Blund’s De anima
	2.2 Body, Soul and the Senses
	2.3 What the Soul Is
	2.4 Touch and Taste
	2.5 How Flavour is Manifested to Taste
	2.6 Voluntary Attention
	2.7 Perception, Qualities and Sense Data
	2.8 Perception and the Source of True Knowledge
	References
		Primary Literature
		Secondary Literature
Chapter 3: Anthropology of Gilbertus Anglicus’ Compendium medicinae
	3.1 The Shadowy Figure of Gilbertus Anglicus
	3.2 From Ancient to Scholastic Medicine
	3.3 In Search of the Definition of the Soul
	3.4 The Problem of the Soul’s Immortality
	3.5 The Problem of Intellect
	3.6 Conclusion
	References
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		Secondary Literature
Chapter 4: A Stain on the Bronze: Some Medieval Latin Commentators on De insomniis 2, 459b23–460a32
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Adam of Buckfield and Albert the Great
	4.3 Some Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Quaestiones on De insomniis 2, 459b23–460a32
	4.4 Conclusion
	References
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		Secondary Literature
Chapter 5: Pygmies, Twins, Monsters: Human Nature and Its Borderlines in Albert the Great
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Pygmies and Human Reason
	5.3 Twins and Human Fate
	5.4 Conclusion: Humans or Monsters? The Intention of Nature
	References
		Primary Literature
		Secondary Literature
Chapter 6: Why Philosophers Father Foolish Children: Peter of Spain, Albert the Great, and James of Viterbo on the Transmission of Intellectual Qualities
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 The Salernitan Question and Peter of Spain’s Quaestiones super libro “De animalibus”
	6.3 Albert the Great’s Quaestiones super libris “De animalibus”
	6.4 Sperm, Complexion, and Generation
	6.5 Heat and Moisture in Albert’s Physiology: Old Men and Generation
	6.6 Two Faces of Melancholy: Aristotle and Galen
	6.7 What Is Unnatural Melancholy?
	6.8 James of Viterbo’s Quodlibet IV, Question 23
	6.9 Conclusion
	References
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		Secondary Literature
Chapter 7: Bodily Prerequisites of the Mind: The Spirit as the Highest Product of Digestion
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 Aristotle’s Notion of Pneuma
	7.3 Galen’s Pneumatology
	7.4 Costa ben Luca’s Definition of Spirit
	7.5 Avicenna’s Connection Between the Humours and the Spirits
	7.6 Albert the Great: The Spirit as the Highest Product of Digestion
	7.7 Conclusion
	References
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		Secondary Literature
Chapter 8: The Role of the Intentio Individualis in Albert the Great’s Sense Perception Theory
	8.1 Introduction
	8.2 Albert the Great and the Individual Intentions
	8.3 The Inner Senses, Avicenna, and the Animal Problem
	8.4 Averroes and the Intentio Individualis
	8.5 Albert the Great: Paraphrases and Intentio
	8.6 Accidents, Forma Totius, and Praedicatio per se Tertio Modo
	8.7 Conclusion
	References
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		Secondary Literature
Chapter 9: Death, the Intellect and the Resurrection of the Dog: Geoffrey of Aspall’s Questions on the De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae
	9.1 Introduction
	9.2 Manuscripts
	9.3 Authenticity
	9.4 On the Death of the Intellectual and Sensitive Souls
	9.5 Conclusion
	Appendices
		Appendix 1
		Appendix 2
		Appendix 3
	References
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		Secondary Literature
Chapter 10: Medieval Views on the Subject of Thought and the Intellectual Soul
	10.1 Introduction
	10.2 Aquinas’s View
	10.3 Aristotelian Evidence Against the Independence of Thought from the Body
	10.4 Aquinas’s Defence of the Independence of Thought
	10.5 Giles of Rome
	10.6 Thomas Wylton
	References
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Chapter 11: A Medieval Defence of Innatism: The Case of James of Viterbo
	11.1 Introduction: Thomas Aquinas on Innatism and Related Mistakes
	11.2 James on Innate Perception and Intellectual Cognition
	11.3 James of Viterbo on Pre-existing Forms in Matter
	11.4 Innate Virtues
	11.5 Conclusion: Back to Aquinas
	References
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Chapter 12: The World of Senses. On the Process of Cognition in Walter Burley
	12.1 Introduction
	12.2 The Process of Cognition as a Process of Abstraction
		12.2.1 The External Senses
		12.2.2 The Internal Senses
		12.2.3 The Intellect
	12.3 Active and Passive Elements of the Human Sensorium
	12.4 Object of Cognition
	12.5 Conclusion
	References
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		Secondary Literature
Chapter 13: “Is Touch One Sense or Several?” A Late Medieval Scientific Question
	13.1 Introduction: The Issues Presented by Touch
	13.2 Two Late Medieval Reflections on the Unicity or Plurality of the Sense of Touch
		13.2.1 Tommaso del Garbo on the Unicity or Plurality of the Sense of Touch
		13.2.2 John Buridan on the Unicity or Plurality of the Sense of Touch
	13.3 Conclusion
	References
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Chapter 14: Buridan Wycliffised? The Nature of the Intellect in Late Medieval Prague University Disputations
	14.1 Introduction
	14.2 Prague University Disputations Around 1400: Scholarly Practices and Manuscript Sources
	14.3 The Intellect Disputed: A Review of Sources
	14.4 The Nature of the Intellect: Conceptual Tensions Between Materialism and Immortality
	14.5 Doctrinal Sources and Positions in Prague Disputations
	14.6 Conclusion
	References
		Primary Literature (Manuscripts & Editions)
		Secondary Literature
Author Index
Subject Index