Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science

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From the Editors
01 Dec 2023
This issue of Aestimatio is the first to be focused on a given theme and organized by a guest editor. We are very pleased to introduce in this issue soundings in the ancient and medieval conceptions of emotions, a domain of inquiry that has in recent years captured the attention of a wide community of scholars working in psychology, psychiatry, the social sciences, and neuroscience. That it has made inroads into the history of science as well is evident in a recent issue of Osiris, a publication of the History of Science Society. The broad contention underlying these studies is that emotions or affective states are a species of cognition resulting from the interaction of the mind, the body, and their physical and cultural environments. Such studies thus promise to show historians of science specific ways in which the world as perceived and known in ancient and medieval times is different from the world as it is perceived and known today. We are grateful to Douglas Cairns of the University of Edinburgh for organizing and introducing these studies of the emotions in ancient and medieval societies and warmly thank Chiara Ferella, Judit Garzón Rodríguez, Sandra Hofert, Ulrike Steinert, and Giovanna Colombetti for their contributions.

Alan C. Bowen and Francesca Rochberg

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Aestimatio (new series) is a peer-reviewed journal. It is owned and published by the Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science (ircps.org).

Aestimatio ns 3.2 (2022)
ISSN 1549–4497 (online)
ISSN 1549–4470 (print)
Published Online 31 Dec 2023