Mind and Modality : Studies in the History of Philosophy in Honour of Simo Knuuttila.

Intro -- MIND AND MODALITY -- Copyright -- Contents -- PART I ANCIENT THOUGHT -- The "Morality of Pity": Sophocles' Philoctetes and the European Stoics -- Aristotle's Desire -- Ta Meta Ta Metaphysika: The Argumentative Structure of Aristotle's Metaphysics. -- Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias on the Active Intellect -- Plotinus on Thinking Oneself and the First-Person -- The Autonomy of Religion in Ancient Philosophy -- PART II MEDIEVAL THOUGHT -- Future Contingents in the Eleventh Century -- Mind and Modal Judgement: Al-Ghaz¯al¯ı and Ibn Rushd on Conceivability and Possibility -- By Necessity -- Types of Self-Awareness in Medieval Thought -- Mental Disorders in Late Medieval Philosophy and Theology -- Wisdom as Intellectual Virtue: Aquinas, Odonis and Buridan -- John Buridan and the Mathematical Demonstration* -- What is Singular Thought? Ockham and Buridan on Singular Terms in the Language of Thought -- Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy: Luther and the Medieval De Anima Tradition of Imagination. -- PART III MODERN THOUGHT -- Necessity, Immutability, and Descartes -- Spinoza and Hume on Pride and Self-Knowledge -- The Community of Minds as a Problem of Modern Philosophy: Descartes, Leibniz, Kant -- Varieties of Philosophical Theology Before and After Kant -- Symbol Meaning and Logical Form: A Study in the Semantics of Religious Language -- Cognition and Emotion -- Index of Names.

This volume offers a wide-ranging and profound collection of essays on philosophical psychology and conceptions of modality from antiquity to the present day, with some essays on the philosophy of religion as well.

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