By Katharina T. Kraus and Stephen Ogden (Editors)
Abstract:The purpose of this edited volume is to assemble a wide-ranging perspective on the history and vicissitudes of a certain pattern of theorizing about the mind as something living. While this view has made important appearances throughout the historical tradition of philosophy, it has largely been neglected from our contemporary conversations about the mind, and even, to a significant extent, from contemporary scholarship about the history of philosophy of mind.
Table of Contents
Introduction: “The History of the Life of the Mind” – Katharina Kraus and Stephen Ogden, ed.
- Hannah Laurens, University of Oxford, “Aristotle’s Prime Mover: Paradigm of Life and Self-Love”
- Wiebke-Marie Stock, University of Notre Dame / Universität Bonn/Germany, “Plotinus on the Wave of the Mind”
- Scott MacDonald, Cornell University, “Augustine’s Inward Turn: Uncovering Memory’s Role in Understanding”
- Jari Kaukua, University of Jyväskylä, “Mind and Mental Existence in Avicenna”
- Peter John Hartman, Loyola University Chicago, “Wicked Minimalism: An Alternative Theory of Mind during the High Middle Ages”
- Julia Jorati, University of Massachusetts Amherst, “Life and the Mind in Margaret Cavendish and Anne Conway”
- Alix Cohen, University of Notre Dame, “Kant on the Feeling of Life in Aesthetics and Beyond”
- Gerad Gentry, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, “Hegel’s Concept of Actuality and the Life of the Mind: Aristotle, Hegel, and Self-Activity”
- Mark Textor, King’s College London, “The String that holds the Bundel together. Or: How 19th century German Psychology answered Humean Scepticism about the Self”
- Anne Clausen, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, “Actuality precedes Possibility. Henri Bergson’s notion of the ‘Life of the Mind’”
- Katharina T. Kraus, Johns Hopkins University, “Edith Stein on the Psychic and the Intellectual Life”
Bibliography
Index
To be published in:
Berlin: Springer, Forthcoming