Psyche and Soma Physicians and Metaphysicians on the Mind-Body Problem from Antiquity to Enlightenment

by Wright, John P.; Potter, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780199256747
• ISBN10: 0199256748
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-27
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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 of Contents

Contributors	xi
Introduction	1	(12)
Soma and Psyche in Hippocratic Medicine	13	(24)
Beate Gundert
The Defining Features of Mind---Body Dualism in the Writings of Plato	37	(20)
T. M. Robinson
Aristotle's Psycho-physiological Account of the Soul--Body Relationship	57	(22)
Philip J. van der Eijk
Body, Soul, and Nerves: Epicurus, Herophilus, Erasistratus, the Stoics, and Galen	79	(38)
Heinrich von Staden
Body and Soul in Saint Paul	117	(16)
Theo K. Heckel
Internalist Reasoning in Augustine for Mind--Body Dualism	133	(14)
Gareth Matthews
Renaissance Theories of Body, Soul, and Mind	147	(26)
Emily Michael
Descartes: Heart and Soul	173	(24)
Stephen Voss
Bayle and Late Seventeenth-Century Thought	197	(20)
Thomas M. Lennon
Stahl, Leibniz, and the Territories of Soul and Body	217	(20)
Francois Duchesneau
Substance versus Function Dualism in Eighteenth-Century Medicine	237	(18)
John P. Wright
Psyche, Soma, and the Vitalist Philosophy of Medicine	255	(12)
Roselyne Rey
Physique and Moral	267	(14)
Francois Azouvi
Select Bibliography	281	(12)
Index	293