History of Mind: Studies in the Philosophy of Simo Knuuttila

Ritva Palmén, José Filipe Silva

• Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Year: 2024
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9783111378527
• Subtopic: Social History
• Index: History

Simo Knuuttila was an influential philosopher, theologian, and historian of philosophy who conducted research on a variety of topics including modalities, emotions, perception, and change in different historical periods, from Ancient to Modern. His contribution to the study of modalities and emotions was groundbreaking and trendsetting with a lasting impact on the area. In this volume, a group of international scholars – all of whom worked directly with Knuuttila – elaborate on some of those topics, trying to understand the core interpretative ideas, the polemical aspects, and how to develop those interpretations in different authors and/or conceptual frameworks. The result is an unique volume that presents a broad range of perspectives on key topics in the history of philosophy in the last decades, both influenced and challenging the interpretations advocated by Knuuttila.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• 1 On Simo Knuuttila: A Philosopher Examining the History of Philosophy
• 2 How to Study the History of Philosophy: Learning from Simo Knuuttila
• 3 Plato as the Originator of Western Logic
• 4 On the Conditions and Limits of Understanding: A Wittgensteinian Analysis of the Case of a Speaking Lion
• 5 Aristotle’s De Motu Animalium, Yesterday and Today
• 6 Simo Knuuttila as a Commentator on Aristotle’s Philosophical Treatises
• 7 Simo Knuuttila on Temporal Necessity in Aristotle and Boethius
• 8 ʿAbd al-Jabbār’s Utilitarian Animal Ethics
• 9 The Problem of Self-Love in Twelfth-Century Philosophy
• 10 Nicole Oresme on Children and Animals
• 11 Incidental Perception and the Unity of Perceptual Experience in Francisco Suárez
• 12 Presuppositional Realism: On Simo Knuuttila’s Views on the Issue of Realism in the Historiography of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Religion
• 13 Simo Knuuttila on Reason and Religious Faith
• 14 On Asserting That God Exists