Contents
Preface
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 Paré’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
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index