Emotion and Cognitive Life in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy

Lisa Shapiro is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of numerous articles on Descartes, with a specific focus on how his writings on the passions sheds light on his account of human nature, and on writings of early modern women thinkers. She is also the editor and translator of The Correspondence between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and René Descartes. Her current research is focussed on Spinoza, Condillac, and Hume. ; Martin Pickavé is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Medieval Studies at University of Toronto. He specializes in later medieval philosophy of mind and metaphysics, and is working on a monograph on medieval theories of the emotions.

List of Contributors ; Abbreviations ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Dispassionate Passions ; 3. Why is the Sheep Afraid of the Wolf? Medieval Debates on Animal Passions ; 4. John Duns Scotus on the Passions of the Will ; 5. Intellections and Volitions in Ockham's Nominalism ; 6. Emotion and Cognition in Later Medieval Philosophy: The Case of Adam Wodeham ; 7. Sixteenth-Century Discussions of the Passions of the Will ; 8. The Philosopher as a Lover: Renaissance Debates on Platonic Eros ; 9. Reasons, Causes, and Inclinations ; 10. Using the Passions ; 11. How We Experience the World: Passionate Perception in Descartes and Spinoza ; 12. Agency and Attention in Malebranche's Theory of Cognition ; 13. Spinoza on Passions and Self-Knowledge: The Case of Pride ; 14. Family Trees: Sympathy, Comparison and the Proliferation of the Passions in Hume and his Predecessors ; Index