Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition. Volume Two: Dreaming

Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist (Ph.D. 2001) is Professor of Latin at the University of Gothenburg. She has published extensively on the Latin reception of Aristotle’s syllogistic theory and more recently also on the medieval reception of Aristotle’s Parva naturalia. Juhana Toivanen (DSocSc 2009) is an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä. He has published widely on medieval philosophical pscyhology and political philosophy, including monographs Perception and the Internal Senses (2013) and The Political Animal in Medieval Philosophy (2021).

Preface

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Introduction: Sleeping and Dreaming in Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition

 Pavel Gregoric and Jakob Leth Fink



1 Aristotle and Michael of Ephesus on the Deceptive Character of Dreams

 Pavel Gregoric



2 Aristotle on Signs in Sleep: Natural Signification and Dream Interpretation

 Filip Radovic



3 Avicenna’s Dreaming in Context

 David Bennett



4 Averroes on Divinatory Dreaming

 Rotraud Hansberger



5 How Dreams Are Made: Some Latin Medieval Commentators on Dream Formation in Aristotle’s De insomniis

 Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist



6 What Does a Scholastic Philosopher Do When He Disagrees with Aristotle? Commentaries on Aristotle’s Divination in Sleep

 Sten Ebbesen



7 The Ghost of Aristotle in Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary Accounts of Delusional Dreaming

 Filip Radovic



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