Human & animal cognition in early modern philosophy & medicine

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Human & animal cognition in early modern philosophy & medicine

Statement of responsibility

edited by Stefanie Buchenau & Roberto Lo Presti

Title variation

Human and animal cognition in early modern philosophy and medicine

Contributor

• JSTOR
• Buchenau, Stefanie
• Lo Presti, Roberto

Editor

• Buchenau, Stefanie
• Lo Presti, Roberto

Provider

• JSTOR

Subject

• Anthropologie
• Behavior, Animal
• Cognition
• Cognition
• Cognition
• Cognition -- History -- 16th century
• Cognition -- History -- 17th century
• Cognition animale.
• Cognition in animals
• Cognition in animals -- History -- 16th century
• Cognition in animals -- History -- 17th century
• Electronic resources
• History, 16th Century
• History, 17th Century
• History, 18th Century
• Leib-Seele-Problem
• MEDICAL / History
• Medicine
• Medicine -- History -- 16th century
• Medicine -- History -- 17th century
• Medizin
• Mensch
• Philosophy, Medical -- history
• Philosophy, Modern
• Philosophy, Modern -- History -- 17th century
• Philosophy, Renaissance
• Philosophy, Renaissance
• Psychology, Comparative
• Tiere
• Wahrnehmung

Language

eng

Summary

From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, new anatomical investigations of the brain and the nervous system, together with a renewed interest in comparative anatomy, allowed doctors and philosophers to ground their theories on sense perception, the emergence of human intelligence, and the soul/body relationship in modern science. They investigated the anatomical structures and the physiological processes underlying the rise, differentiation, and articulation of human cognitive activities, and looked for the "anatomical roots" of the specificity of human intelligence when compared to other forms of animal sensibility. This edited volume focuses on medical and philosophical debates on human intelligence and animal perception in the early modern age, providing fresh insights into the influence of medical discourse on the rise of modern philosophical anthropology. Contributions from distinguished historians of philosophy and medicine focus on sixteenth-century zoological, psychological, and embryological discourses on man; the impact of mechanism and comparative anatomy on philosophical conceptions of body and soul; and the key status of sensibility in the medical and philosophical enlightenment.

Assigning source

--book jacket

Cataloging source

JSTOR

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

BF311

LC item number

.H86 2017eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

BF 311

NLM item number

H9175 2017