Subjectivity and Selfhood in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy

Book Overview

Introduction; Jari Kaukua and Tomas Ekenberg.- Chapter 1. Augustine on Second-Order Desires and Passions; Tomas Ekenberg.- Chapter 2. The Augustinian cogito and Materialist Theories of Mind; Tamer Nawar.- Chapter 3. Losing Oneself, Finding Oneself: Perspectives from Islamic Intellectual History; Taneli Kukkonen.- Chapter 4. Avicenna on Non-Conceptual Content and Self-Awareness in Non-Human Animals; Luis Xavier L?pez-Farjeat.- Chapter 5. Self, Agent, Soul: Ab? al-Barak?t al-Baghd?d?'s Critical Reception of Avicennian Psychology; Jari Kaukua.- Chapter 6. 'Causa sui': Awareness and Choice in the Constitution of Self; Calvin Normore.- Chapter 7. Aping Logic? Albert the Great on Animal Mind and Action; J?rg Alejandro Tellkamp.- Chapter 8. Locating Human Subjectivity in Aquinas: Self-Awareness, Freedom, and the Reflexivity of Incorporeal Acts; Therese Scarpelli Cory.- Chapter 9. Subjective Experience and Self-Knowledge: Chatton's Approach and its Problems; Sonja Schierbaum.- Chapter 10. Self-Awareness and Perception in Late Medieval Epistemology; Jos? Filipe Silva.- Chapter 11. Beasts, Human Beings, or Gods: Human Subjectivity in Medieval Political Philosophy; Juhana Toivanen.- Chapter 12. Martin Luther's Early Theological Anthropology: From Parts of the Soul to the Human Person; Ilmari Karimies.- Chapter 13. A Bodily Sense of Self in Descartes and Malebranche; Colin Chamberlain.- Chapter 14. A View from Nowhere? The Place of Subjectivity in Spinoza's Rationalism; Julia Borcherding.- Chapter 15. Reflection and Rationality in Leibniz; Sebastian Bender.- Chapter 16. Hume's Self and the Appendix; Udo Thiel.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319800418
• ISBN13: 9783319800417
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"