Lo Sguardo Journal of Philosophy

Call for Papers

ANIMAL AND SOUL:

PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES
FROM THE 13th TO THE 19th CENTURY
N. XVIII, July 2015
Edited by Marzia Caciolini and Myrtha De Meo Ehlert

LO SGUARDO.NET
CALL FOR PAPERS INFO & GUIDELINES FOR THE SUBMISSION
GUIDELINES FOR PUBLICATION & EDITING
The soul, (if) possessed by animals, has been the issue of a lively gnoseological
and semantic debate during the Renaissance. While in the Middle Age the
attention was rather focused on the opposition between man and beast (the word
animal is not commonly used), the status of the animal as a being provided with
his own ontological and naturalistic domain become, during the Renaissance, the
center of a strong debate, also related to ethical and anthropoloogical questions,
inaugurating a new topic that will follow the development of the classical
metaphysics until the the German idealistic thought of the Nineteenth Century.
The present issue aims at investigating the theoretical consequences of the traits
given to the animal by the philosophical inquiry from the 13th to the 19th Century.

ACCEPTED LANGUAGES: ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN, GERMAN, SPANISH

DEADLINE FOR THE DELIVERY: JUNE, 20TH 2015
SEND YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO: redazione@losguardo.net
Call for papers
The Editorial and the Scientific Board of Lo Sguardo will be glad to receive
contributions about the following topics:
1) Animal soul in the Early Modern age (with special attention, if it is possible, to Pietro
Pomponazzi, Marilio Ficino and Giordano Bruno);
2) Animal and soul in the Enlightment;
3) Animal soul in the Nineteenth Century's German thought (with special attention, if it is
possible, to F. W. J. Schelling, G. W. F. Hegel and A. Schopenhauer)
4) The issue will contain an appendix dedicated to the philosophical inquiry on animals in
the contemporary age

The Editorial Team

redazione@losguardo.net