Preface ix
Introduction 1
Stefanie Buchenau & Roberto Lo Presti
SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ARISTOTELIAN ANTHROPOLOGY BETWEEN
ZOOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, & EMBRYOLOGY
1. Renaissance Aristotelianism & the Birth of Anthropology 17
Simone De Angelis
2. (Dis)embodied Thinking & the Scale of Beings: Pietro Pomponazzi & Agostino Nifo on the “Psychic” Processes in Men & Animals 37
Roberto Lo Presti
3. For Christ’s Sake: Pious Notions of the Human & Animal Body in Early Jesuit Philosophy & Theology 55
Christoph Sander
4. Renaissance Psychology: Francisco Vallesius (1524–1592) & Otto Casmann (1562–1607) on Animal & Human Souls 74
Davide Cellamare
5. Human & Animal Generation in Renaissance Medical Debates 89
Hiro Hirai
6. “Rational Surgery” by Building on Tradition: Ambroise Paré’s Conception of “Medical” Knowledge of the Human Body 99
Marie Gaille
PART II. HUMANS, ANIMALS, & THE RISE OF COMPARATIVE ANATOMY
7. Diseases of the Brain Seen through Giovanni Battista Morgagni’s Eyes 113
Domenico Bertoloni Meli
8. Between Language, Music, & Sound: Birdsong as a Philosophical Problem from Aristotle to Kant 127
Justin E. H. Smith
9. Boundary Crossings: The Blurring of the Human/Animal Divide as Naturalization of the Soul in Early Modern Philosophy 147
Charles T. Wolfe
10. How Animals May Help Us Understand Men: Thomas Willis’s Anatomy of the Brain (1664) & Two Discourses Concerning the Soules of Brutes (1672) 173
Claire Crignon
11. Political Animals in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy: Some Rival Paradigms (Hobbes and Gassendi) 186
Gianni Paganini
PART III.EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY INQUIRIES INTO THE NATURE OF SENSIBILITY
12. Degrees & Forms of Sensibility in Haller’s Physiology 201
François Duchesneau
13. Anthropological Medicine & the Naturalization of Sensibility 221
Stephen Gaukroger
14. Cabanis & the Order of Interaction 236
Tobias Cheung
15. Self-Feeling: Aristotelian Patterns in Ernst Platner’s Anthropology for Physicians and Philosophers (1772) 246
Stefanie Buchenau
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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