Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition. Volume Two: Dreaming

Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist (Ph.D. 2001) is Professor of Latin at the University of Gothenburg. She has published extensively on the Latin reception of Aristotle’s syllogistic theory and more recently also on the medieval reception of Aristotle’s Parva naturalia. Juhana Toivanen (DSocSc 2009) is an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä. He has published widely on medieval philosophical pscyhology and political philosophy, including monographs Perception and the Internal Senses (2013) and The Political Animal in Medieval Philosophy (2021).

• PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction: Sleeping and Dreaming in Aristotle and the Aristotelian TraditionPavel Gregoric and Jakob Leth Fink1 Aristotle and Michael of Ephesus on the Deceptive Character of DreamsPavel Gregoric2 Aristotle on Signs in Sleep: Natural Signification and Dream InterpretationFilip Radovic3 Avicenna’s Dreaming in ContextDavid Bennett4 Averroes on Divinatory DreamingRotraud Hansberger5 How Dreams Are Made: Some Latin Medieval Commentators on Dream Formation in Aristotle’s De insomniisChristina Thomsen Thörnqvist6 What Does a Scholastic Philosopher Do When He Disagrees with Aristotle? Commentaries on Aristotle’s Divination in SleepSten Ebbesen7 The Ghost of Aristotle in Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary Accounts of Delusional DreamingFilip RadovicBibliographyIndex