A Philosophical History of the Concept

Stephan Schmid is Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Hamburg. He is the editor of Philosophy of Mind in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance (2018), and the co-editor (with Calvin G. Normore) of Grounding in Medieval Philosophy (2024). Hamid Taieb is an Emmy-Noether Research Group Leader at Humboldt University Berlin. He is the author of Relational Intentionality: Brentano and the Aristotelian Tradition (2018).

• Introduction: a philosophical history of the concept Stephan Schmid and Hamid Taieb; 1. Concepts in classical Greece: Aristotle and his predecessors Victor Caston; 2. Concepts in Epicurean and Stoic philosophy Gábor Betegh and Voula Tsouna; 3. Concepts in late antiquity Riccardo Chiaradonna; 4. Concepts in early Chinese philosophy Franklin Perkins; 5. Buddhist theory of concepts Monima Chadha; 6. Concepts in Brahmanical philosophy in classical India Dimitry Shevchenko; 7. Concepts in Islamic philosophy Jari Kaukua; 8. Concepts in the Latin medieval tradition Margaret Cameron; 9. Concepts and Ideas in Suárez, Descartes, and Beyond Stephan Schmid; 10. Concepts in British Empiricism Jennifer Marušić; 11. The Leibnizean alternative: logical-conceptual versus presentational models Graciela T. De Pierris; 12. Kant on the Epigenesis of (Empirical) concepts Huaping Lu-Adler; 13. The Concept in German idealism Frederick Beiser; 14. Concept, value and world: Neo-Kantianism, Dilthey and Nietzsche Nicolas de Warren; 15. Concepts in the school of Brentano, Husserl and early phenomenology Hamid Taieb; 16. Two concepts of concept in early analytic philosophy Mark Textor; 17. Concepts in Pragmatism Catherine Legg; 18. Concepts, meaning and use: Wittgenstein and his legacy Hans-Johann Glock; 19. Concepts in Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Gadamer Taylor Crman; 20. Poststructuralist approaches to the concept Henry Somers-Hall; 21. Carnap, Quine, Putnam and Burge on concepts Gary Ebbs; 22. Concepts and conceptual engineering Sarah Sawyer; Index.