Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition. Volume Two: Dreaming

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50608-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 162, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 607 g

Reihe: Philosophia Antiqua

The trilogy Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition investigates how Aristotle and his ancient and medieval successors understood the relation between the external world and the human mind. It gives an equal footing to the three most influential linguistic traditions – Greek, Latin, and Arabic – and offers insightful interpretations of historical theories of perception, dreaming, and thinking. This second volume focuses on dreaming and analyses some of the most prominent problems connected to dreams as representations. The contributions in this volume address the core Aristotelian texts and their reception, up to and including contemporary scientific discourse on dreaming.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Thomsen Thörnqvist, Christina

Toivanen, Juhana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction: Sleeping and Dreaming in Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition

Pavel Gregoric and Jakob Leth Fink

1 Aristotle and Michael of Ephesus on the Deceptive Character of Dreams

Pavel Gregoric

2 Aristotle on Signs in Sleep: Natural Signification and Dream Interpretation

Filip Radovic

3 Avicenna’s Dreaming in Context

David Bennett

4 Averroes on Divinatory Dreaming

Rotraud Hansberger

5 How Dreams Are Made: Some Latin Medieval Commentators on Dream Formation in Aristotle’s De insomniis

Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist

6 What Does a Scholastic Philosopher Do When He Disagrees with Aristotle? Commentaries on Aristotle’s Divination in Sleep

Sten Ebbesen

7 The Ghost of Aristotle in Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary Accounts of Delusional Dreaming

Filip Radovic

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist (Ph.D. 2001) is Professor of Latin at the University of Gothenburg. She has published extensively on the Latin reception of Aristotle’s syllogistic theory and more recently also on the medieval reception of Aristotle’s Parva naturalia.

Juhana Toivanen (DSocSc 2009) is an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä. He has published widely on medieval philosophical pscyhology and political philosophy, including monographs Perception and the Internal Senses (2013) and The Political Animal in Medieval Philosophy (2021).