Soul and Mind in Greek Thought. Psychological Issues in Plato and Aristotle

Chapter 1. General Introduction (Marcelo D. Boeri).- Part I. Plato.- Chapter 2. The Beauty and the Beast: Tragedy and Dialog in Plato's Philosophy (Barbara Botter).- Chapter 3. Socrates on Punishment and the Law: Apology 25c5-26b2 (Thomas Brickhouse).- Chapter 4. Why didn't Socrates Escape? (Mariko Kanayama).- Chapter 5. Plato's Wax Tablet (Yasuhira Y. Kanayama).- Chapter 6. Politics of the Soul in Plato's Republic (Iván De los Ríos).- Part II. Plato, Aristotle, and Commentators on Aristotle.- Chapter 7. Platonic Souls in the Cave: Can they be just Rational? (Ivana Costa).- Chapter 8. Plato and Aristotle on what is Common to Body and Soul. Some Remarks on a Complicated Issue (Marcelo D. Boeri).- Chapter 9. The Causal Structure of Emotions in Aristotle: Hylomorphism, Causal Interaction Between Mind and Body, and Intentionality (Gabriela Rossi).- Chapter 10. Dissimilarity Between Moral Excellence and Art: An Interpretation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics II 4 (Javier Echeñique).- Chapter 11. To Be Handled with Care: Alexander on Nature as a Passive Power (Jorge Mittelmann).- Chapter 12. The Notion of Human Soul in Themistius (Manuel Correia).

Marcelo D. Boeri is full professor and researcher at the Philosophy Institute, Pontifical Catholic University (Chile). His main areas of interest are focused on psychology, moral psychology, and epistemology in Plato, Aristotle, and Stoicism. He has published papers in scientific journals, chapters of books, and books on these authors as well as annotated Spanish translations of Plato (Charmides, Theaetetus, Philebus), Aristotle (Physics I-II; VII-VIII. On the Soul), and the Early and Middle Stoicism.
Yasuhira Y. Kanayama is full professor and researcher at Nagoya University (Japan). His main interest lies in Plato's epistemology and methodology, and also in Ancient Scepticism. He has published numerous papers especially on Plato, and Japanese translations of all the works of Sextus Empiricus (with Mariko Kanayama), Aristotle, On Coming-to-be and Passing-away, and of such academic books as A.A. Long, Hellenistic Philosophy, and J. Barnes and J. Annas, The Modes of Scepticism.
Jorge Mittelmann is associate professor and researcher at the Philosophy Institute, University of the Andes (Chile). His research is centered on Aristotle's psychology (and its reception within the Peripatetic and Neoplatonic traditions), logic and ontology. He has published several papers and chapters of books on these and other related topics as well as an annotated Spanish translation of Aristotle's Categories and On Interpretation.