The Faculties: A History

355 Pages·2015·1.4 MB·English

by  Dominik Perler (ed.)

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Contents
contributors vii
series editor’s foreword xi
Introduction 3
Dominik Perler
1 Faculties in Ancient Philosophy 19
Klaus Corcilius
Reflection Faculties and Self-Debate 59
Helene P. Foley
2 Faculties in Arabic Philosophy 66
Taneli Kukkonen
3 Faculties in Medieval Philosophy 97
Dominik Perler
Reflection Faculties and Imagination 140
Verena Olejniczak Lobsien
4 Faculties in Early Modern Philosophy 150
Stephan Schmid
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5 Faculties in Kant and German Idealism 198
Johannes Haag
Reflection Faculties and Phrenology 247
Rebekka Hufendiek and Markus Wild
6 Faculties and Modularity 254
Rebekka Hufendiek and Markus Wild
Reflection Faculties and Neuroenhancement 299
Saskia K. Nagel
bibliography 309
index of names 331
index of concepts 337
Contributors
klaus corcilius is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of
California at Berkeley. He is the author of Streben und Bewegen: Aristoteles’ The-
orie der animalischen Ortsbewegung (2008) and of several articles on Aristotle’s
theory of desire, animal motion, and human action. Recent publications include
a volume coedited with Dominik Perler, Partitioning the Soul: Debates from
Plato to Leibniz (2014).
helene p. foley is Professor of Classics, Barnard College, Columbia Univer-
sity. She is the author of books and articles on Greek epic and drama, on women
and gender in antiquity, and on modern performance and adaptation of Greek
drama. Author of Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides (1985), The Ho-
meric Hymn to Demeter (1994), Female Acts in Greek Tragedy (2001), Reimagin-
ing Greek Tragedy on the American Stage (2012), and Euripides: Hecuba (2015);
coauthor of Women in the Classical World: Image and Text (1994). She edited
Reflections of Women in Antiquity (1981) and coedited Visualizing the Tragic:
Drama, Myth and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature (2007) and Antigone on the
Contemporary World Stage (2011).
johannes haag is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of
Potsdam. He has published on early modern philosophy as well as contempo-
rary theories of perception and the foundations of intentionality. He is the
author of Der Blick nach innen. Wahrnehmung und Introspektion (2001) and
Erfahrung und Gegenstand. Das Verhältnis von Sinnlichkeit und Verstand (2007),
and coeditor of Ideen. Repräsentationalismus in der Frühen Neuzeit (2010) and
Übergänge—diskursiv oder intuitiv? (2013).
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rebekka hufendiek is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Basel.
Her main research interests are in the area of the philosophy of mind, especially
embodied cognition, naturalism, and emotion theories. In her dissertation, she
investigated embodied emotions. She coedited a volume on embodied cogni-
tion, Philosophie der Verkörperung. Grundlagentexte zu einer aktuellen Debatte
(with Joerg Fingerhut and Markus Wild, 2013).
taneli kukkonen has held appointments at the Universities of Victoria,
Jyväskylä, and Otago and New York University Abu Dhabi. He specializes in
classical Arabic philosophy and the Aristotelian tradition, especially in the fields
of cosmology and philosophy of mind. He is the author of Ibn Tufayl (2014) as
well as over thirty essays on topics in the Aristotelian and Platonic philosophical
traditions.
verena olejniczak lobsien is Professor of English Literature at the Hum-
boldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her major research interests are early modern Eng-
lish literature and culture with a focus on transformations of antiquity and their
aesthetic potential. She is the author of Subjektivität als Dialog (1994), Skeptische
Phantasie (1999), Transparency and Dissimulation: Configurations of Neopla-
tonism in Early Modern English Literature (2010), Jenseitsästhetik: Literarische
Räume letzter Dinge (2012), and, with Eckhard Lobsien, coauthor of Die unsicht-
bare Imagination (2003).
saskia k. nagel is Assistant Professor at the University of Twente. Her back-
ground is in cognitive science and in philosophy. She is interested in the anthro-
pological, ethical, and social dimensions of scientific and technological progress
and in the role of technologies for human self-understanding. Her recent work
focuses on questions about self-determination throughout the lifespan. She
seeks to understand public attitudes toward scientific developments. She is
author of Ethics and the Neurosciences (2010) and has published various articles
on ethical questions related to neuroscientific progress, in particular on neu-
roenhancement and questions of autonomy.
dominik perler is Professor of Philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu
Berlin. His research focuses on medieval and early modern philosophy, mostly in
the areas of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind. He is the
author of Theorien der Intentionalität im Mittelalter (2002), Zweifel und Gewiss-
heit. Skeptische Debatten im Mittelalter (2006), Transformationen der Gef ühle.
contributors ix
Philosophische Emotionstheorien 1270–1670 (2011), coauthor of Occasionalismus.
Theorien der Kausalität im arabisch-islamischen und im europäischen Denken
(2000), editor of Ancient and Medieval Theories of Intentionality (2001), and
coeditor of Selbstbezug und Selbstwissen. Texte zu einer mittelalterlichen Debatte
(2014) and Partitioning the Soul. Debates from Plato to Leibniz (2014).
stephan schmid is Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Humboldt-Univer-
sität zu Berlin, where he works on early modern and medieval philosophy as well
as on contemporary analytic philosophy, focusing mainly on metaphysics (mo-
dality, causality, ontology) and philosophy of mind (intentionality). He is the
author of Finalursachen in der frühen Neuzeit (2011) and coeditor of Final
Causes and Teleologial Explanations (2011) and Dispositionen. Texte aus der zeit-
genössischen Debatte (2014) and has published various articles on Aquinas,
Suárez, and Spinoza.
markus wild is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Basel.
His research focuses mainly on early modern philosophy, philosophy of mind,
and naturalism. He has worked on Montaigne, Descartes, Hume, animal minds,
mental representations, consciousness, and teleosemantics. He is the author of
Die anthropologische Differenz (2006) and coeditor of Animal Mind and Animal
Ethics (with Klaus Petrus, 2013).