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This book offers the first comprehensive study of medieval and modern debates on the nature of touch - its objects, limits, and operations - from the mid thirteenth century to the early twentieth century. Spanning the period from the rise of Aristotelian university curricula to the flourishing of experimental psychology, it demonstrates how touch recurrently emerged as a central concern in philosophical and scientific inquiry.
In recent years, scholarly interest in the history of sense perception, perceptual theories, and the physiology of the sensory organs has grown significantly. This volume advances these fields by bringing to the fore a foundational question that has engaged philosophers, teachers, practitioners, and physicians for centuries, yet has not received sustained and focused analysis at the intersection of the history of philosophy and the sciences: what is touch?
The nine chapters of this collection, authored by leading specialists, illuminate the core debates surrounding touch and emphasize their broader intellectual significance. With a chronological scope spanning more than six centuries, the book will appeal to a wide community of scholars in philosophy and the sciences, as well as to advanced students and researchers, responding to the growing interest in the study of sense perception in general and touch in particular.
Contents
1.The Aristotelians' Touch. Commenting On Sense and What is Sensed (De sensu et sensato) in Thirteenth-Century Oxford(Monika Mansfeld).- 2. Labour Pain and Touch in Late Medieval Science(Chiara Beneduce).- 3. Nicholas of Autrecourt on the Superiority of Touch and the Ontology of Sensible Qualities(Aurélien Robert).- 4. With Fingers and Tongue: The Primacy of Touch and Tactile Qualities in Renaissance Galenic Medicine(Elisabeth Moreau).- 5. Touch in Second Scholasticism: Francisco Suárez, John Poinsot, Bartolomeo Mastri and Bonaventura Belluto(Daniel Heider).- 6. The Sense of (Interoceptive) Touch in Descartes(Alison Simmons).- 7. From Fingertips to Papillae: Marcello Malpighi on the Sense of Touch(Luca Tonetti).- 8. Mary Shepherd on Proprioception and Knowledge of the External World(Antonia LoLordo).- 9. Touch a priori? Tactile Perception of Space in Nineteenth-century Physiology and Psychology(Denise Vincenti).
