Psyche and soma : physicians and metaphysicians on the mind-body problem from Antiquity to Enlightenment / edited by John P. Wright and Paul Potter.

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2000
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Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2000.

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xii, 298 pages ; 24 cm

Contents

Soma and psyche in Hippocratic medicine / Beate Gundert -- The defining features of mind-body dualism in the writings of Plato / T.M. Robinson -- Aristotle's psycho-physiological account of the soul-body relationship / Philip J. van der Eijk -- Body, soul, and nerves: Epicurus, Herophilus, Erasistratus, the Stoics, and Galen / Heinrich von Staden -- Body and soul in Saint Paul / Theo K. Heckel -- Internalist reasoning in Augustine for mind-body dualism / Gareth Matthews -- Renaissance theories of body, soul, and mind / Emily Michael -- Descartes: heart and soul / Stephen Voss -- Bayle and late seventeenth-century thought / Thomas M. Lennon -- Stahl, Leibniz, and the territories of soul and body / François Duchesneau -- Substance versus function dualism in eighteenth-century medicine / John P. Wright -- Psyche, soma, and the vitalist philosophy of medicine / Roselyne Rey -- Physique and moral / François Azouvi.

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Includes index and bibliography: p. [281]-291.

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  • 0198238401