Mind and Modality

This volume offers a wide-ranging and profound collection of essays on philosophical psychology and conceptions of modality from antiquity to the present day, with some essays on the philosophy of religion as well.
The contributions deal with mind’s cognitive and emotional functions, the modal notions and the philosophical approaches to religion as well as logical, semantic and epistemological issues concerning them. Of twenty-one contributions, six focus on ancient thought, nine on medieval thought, and six on modern and contemporary thought.
The book illustrates how philosophical theories of mind and modalities developed through the centuries in western philosophy. It is particularly useful for those interested in the analysis of emotions, their cognitive bearing and ethical significance.

Contributors include: Lilli Alanen, Joël Biard, David Charles, Ingolf U. Dalferth, Sten Ebbesen, Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson, Jaakko Hintikka, Vesa Hirvonen, Toivo J. Holopainen, Heikki Kirjavainen, Taneli Kukkonen, Henrik Lagerlund, Ilkka Niiniluoto, C.G. Normore, Martha C. Nussbaum, Marco M. Olivetti, Risto Saarinen, Juha Sihvola, Miira Tuominen, Reijo Työrinoja, and Mikko Yrjönsuuri.

Publications by Simo Knuuttila:

• “Duns Scotus and the Foundations of Logical Modalities”, in: Ludger Honnefelder, Rega Wood and Mechthild Dreyer (eds.), John Duns Scotus: Metaphysics and Ethics, ISBN: 978 90 04 10357 3
• “Necessities in Buridan’s Natural Philosophy”, in: J.M.M.H. Thijssen and Jack Zupko (eds.), Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy of John Buridan, ISBN: 978 90 04 11514 9

Vesa Hirvonen, Th.D. (2002), University of Helsinki, is Researcher at the University of Jyväskylä and the University of Helsinki. His publications on late medieval philosophy and theology include Passions in William Ockham’s Philosophical Psychology (Kluwer 2004).

Toivo J. Holopainen, Th.D. (1995), University of Helsinki, is Researcher at the University of Helsinki. He has published on early medieval philosophy and theology including Dialectic and Theology in the Eleventh Century (Brill, 1996).

Miira Tuominen, Ph.D. (2002) in Philosophy, University of Helsinki, is Researcher at the University of Helsinki. She works on ancient philosophy, her main publication being Apprehension and Argument: Ancient Theories of Starting Points for Knowledge (Springer, forthcoming 2006).
The editors are members of the History of Mind Research Unit, a Centre of Excellence funded by the Academy of Finland and the Universities of Helsinki and Jyväskylä.