Embodiment A History

Justin E. H. Smith is professor in the department of history and philosophy of science at the Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7. He is the author of The Philosopher: A History in Six Types (2016), Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy (2015), and Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life (2011), all from Princeton University Press.

Contributors

Series Editor's Foreward

Introduction, Justin E.H. Smith

1. Brooke Holmes, "The Body of Western Embodiment: :Classical Antiquity and the Early History of a Problem"
2. Helen Lang, "Embodied or Ensouled: Aristotle on the Relation of Soul and Body"
3. Lesley-Anne Dyer Williams, "Asceticism and Aestheticism: The Paradox of Embodiment in Plotinus' Enneads"
4. Sarah Byers, "Augustinian Puzzles about Body, Soul, Flesh, and Death"
5. Yoav Meyrav, "Medieval Jewish Philosophers and the Human Body"
6. Rafael Nájera, "Scholastic Philosophers on the Role of the Body in Knowledge"
7. Geoffrey Gorham, "Hobbes's Embodied God"
8. Ohad Nachtomy, "Leibniz's View of Individuals: Nested or Embodied Individuals"
9. Alison Peterman, "Descartes and Spinoza: Two Approaches to Embodiment"
10. Philippe Huneman and Charles T. Wolfe, "Man-Machines and Embodiment: From Cartesian Physiology to Claude Bernard's 'Living Machine'"
11. Jake H. Davis, "The Embodiment of Virtue: Towards a Cross-Cultural Cognitive Science"

Reflections
1. Véronique Decaix, "The Devil in the Flesh: On Witchcraft and Possession"
2. Stephen Gaukroger, "Phantom Limbs"
3. Yelda Nasifoglu, "Embodied Geometry in Early Modern Theatre"
4. Jonathan Regier, "Ghosts in the Celestial Machine: Embodiment in the Late Renaissance"
5. Emily Herring, "The Genotype/Phenotype Distinction"