Psyche and Soma - Physicians Metaphysicians on Mind Body Problem From Antiquity to

Zusatztext Timely and important volume ... Psyche and Soma is an important resource for scholars in the history of science, medicine and philosophy and will stimulate discussion of these issues for many years to come. Informationen zum Autor John P. Wright is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, Central Michigan University. Paul Potter is Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario. Zusammenfassung A multi-disciplinary exploration of the history of understanding of the human mind or soul and its relationship to the body, through the course of more than 2000 years. The 13 specially commissioned chapters explore the views of influential writers on such questions as the soul's immortality.

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• Authors: John P. Potter Wright
• Assisted by: Paul Potter (Editor), Paul (Professor of the History of Medicine Potter (Editor), Potter Paul (Editor), John P. Wright (Editor), John P. (Professor of Philosophy Wright (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.03.2000
• EAN: 9780198238409
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823840-9
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, SCIENCE / History, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy of Mind, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology