Ancient Perspectives on Aristotle’s De anima

Aristotle’s treatise ‘On the Soul’ figures among the most influential texts in the intellectual history of the West. It is the first systematic treatise on the nature and functioning of the human soul, presenting Aristotle’s authoritative analyses of, among others, sense perception, imagination, memory, and intellect. The ongoing debates on this difficult work continue the commentary tradition that dates back to antiquity. This volume offers a selection of papers by distinguished scholars, exploring the ancient perspectives on Aristotle’s De anima, from Aristotle’s earliest successors through the Aristotelian Commentators at the end of Antiquity. It constitutes a twin publication with a volume entitled Medieval Perspectives on Aristotle’s De anima (to be published in the Series ‘Philosophes Médiévaux’, Peeters Publ.), both volumes appearing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the De Wulf Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy at K.U. Leuven and U.C. Louvain.

Contributions by: Enrico Berti, Klaus Corcilius, Frans de Haas, Andrea Falcon, Patrick Macfarlane, Pierre-Marie Morel, Ronald Polansky, R.W. Sharples, Nathanael Stein, Annick Stevens, Joel Yurdin, Marco Zingano.

"Ancient Perspectives on Aristotle’s De anima" was edited by Gerd Van Riel and Pierre Destrée.

Gerd Van Riel is professor of ancient philosophy at the KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy.

Gerd Van Riel is als gewoon hoogleraar antieke filosofie verbonden aan het Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte (De Wulf-Mansioncentrum) van de KU Leuven. Zijn specialisatiedomein is de filosofie van Plato en de Platoonse traditie.

Pierre Destrée is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Institut de Philosophie). His main research area is Aristotelianism, with an emphasis on Aristotle's Ethics.

Yes, "Ancient Perspectives on Aristotle’s De anima" is part of the "Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1" series. It's book 41 in the series.

In association with The De Wulf-Mansion Centre.

About the Series

The series' focus lies primarily on the continuity and thematic transitions between ancient, medieval and renaissance thought, but also includes volumes on specific topics related to any of those periods. ‘Philosophy' is understood broadly to include metaphysics, ethics, natural philosophy, epistemology and philosophy of mind, and philosophical theology. Since the series is particularly devoted to making available Latin and Greek source texts, we welcome critical text editions as well as contributions that are based on philological scrutiny of those texts, without losing sight of their philosophical importance.

Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1 aims to publish at least two volumes a year and accepts monographs as well as thematically coherent edited volumes in English (without excluding the possibility of French, German, or Italian contributions to edited volumes). Manuscripts should be 80.000 to 120.000 words in length.

Readership

Researchers and graduate students in ancient, medieval and renaissance philosophy, in classics and in history.

Editorial Coordinator

Russell Friedman, KU Leuven, Belgium

Editorial Board

Pieter Beullens, KU Leuven, Belgium
Lisa Devriese, KU Leuven, Belgium
Pieter d'Hoine, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jan Opsomer, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jenny Pelletier, KU Leuven, Belgium
Andrea Robiglio, KU Leuven, Belgium
Carlos Steel, KU Leuven, Belgium
Gerd Van Riel, KU Leuven, Belgium

Advisory Board

Brad Inwood, Yale Universityo, USA
Jill Kraye, The Warburg Institute, London, United Kingdom
John Marenbon, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Lodi Nauta, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Timothy Noone (†) , The Catholic University of America, USA
Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Martin Pickavé, University of Toronto, Canada,
Pasquale Porro, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Geert Roskam, KU Leuven, Belgium

Proposals

Proposals and enquiries can be sent to  editorial coordinator Russell L. Friedman. Please send a preliminary abstract (3-4 pp.) and a short bio. Upon approval of this abstract, the full manuscript will be submitted to international peer review.

Please make use of the submission form to present the full manuscript to our board.
Authors interested in Open Access can consult the available funding options.

Links & Resources

Gerd Van Riel and Arnis RÄ«tups,
Introduction

Klaus Corcilius,
How are Episodes of Thought Initiated According to Aristotle?

Nathanael Stein,
After Literalism and Spiritualism: the Plasticity of Aristotelian Perception

Annick Stevens,
L'apparition de la conscience dans le De anima et d'autres oeuvres d'Aristote

Frans De Haas,
Know Thyself: Plato and Aristotle on Awareness

Joel Yurdin,
Aristotelian Imagination and the Explanation of Behavior

Marco Zingano,
Considérations sur l'argumentation d'Aristote dans De anima III 4

Patrick Macfarlane and Ronald Polansky,
God, the Divine, and νοῦς in relation to the De anima

Pierre-Marie Morel,
Parties du corps et fonctions de l'âme en Metaphysique Z

Enrico Berti,
La cause du mouvement dans les êtres vivants

R.W. Sharples,
The Hellenistic Period: What Happened to Hylomorphism?

Andrea Falcon,
The Scope and Unity of Aristotle's Investigation of the Soul

Bibliography
List of Contributors