Preface
Introduction / Stefanie Buchenau & Roberto Lo Presti
part I. Sixteenth-century Aristotelian anthropology between zoology, psychology, & embryology
1. Renaissance Aristotelianism & the birth of anthropology / Simone De Angelis
2. (Dis)embodied thinking & the scale of beings : Pietro Pomponazzi & Agostino Nifo on the "psychic" processes in men & animals / Roberto Lo Presti
3. For Christ's sake : pious notions of the human & animal body in early Jesuit philosophy & theology / Christoph Sander
4. Renaissance psychology : Francisco Vallesius (1524-1592) & Otto Casmann (1562-1607) on animal & human souls / Davide Cellamare
5. Human & animal generation in Renaissance medical debates / Hiro Hirai
6. "Rational surgery" by building on tradition : Ambroise Paré's conception of "medical" knowledge of the human body / Marie Gaille
part II. Humans, animals, & the rise of comparative anatomy
7. Diseases of the brain seen through Giovanni Battista Morgagni's eyes / Domenico Bertoloni Meli
8. Between language, music, & sound : birdsong as a philosophical problem from Aristotle to Kant / Justin E.H. Smith
9. Boundary crossings : the blurring of the human/animal divide as naturalization of the soul in early modern philosophy / Charles T. Wolfe
10. How animals may help us understand men : Thomas Willis's Anatomy of the brain (1664) & Two Discourses concerning the soules of Brutes (1672) / Claire Crignon
11. Political animals in seventeenth-century philosophy : some rival paradigms (Hobbes and Gassendi) / Gianni Paganini
part III. Eighteenth-century inquiries into the nature of sensibility
12. Degrees & forms of sensibility in Haller's physiology / François Duchesneau
13. Anthropological medicine & the naturalization of sensibility / Stephen Gaukroger
14. Cabanis & the order of interaction / Tobias Cheung
15. Self-feeling : Aristotelian patterns in Ernst Platner's Anthropology for physicians and philosophers (1772) / Stefanie Buchenau.