"Just Life in a Nutshell": Humours as Common Sense
Paper given at a one-day symposium on "Folk Epistemologies", at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, NY, on October 26th, 2007.
Published in The Philosophical Forum (Fall 2008: 39-3), along with the other papers given at the symposium.
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An Acrobat. Greece, 4th Century BC (private collection)
Passions and Tempers
Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours
A 2500-year journey that explores the origins of humours in ancient Greece through the present day. Published by Ecco (HarperCollins). Read more.
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written for the 2010 Edge World Question Center
La quête de l´équilibre: âme, vertus, humeurs
Piece published in the French journal Corps (March 2010)
"Just Life in a Nutshell": Humours as Common Sense
Written for a symposium on "Folk Epistemologies" at Columbia University, in 2007. Published in The Philosophical Forum.
Opaque Humors, Enlightened Emotions, and the Transparent mind
Published in the journal Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics (Harvard University Press), issue 51, spring 2007.
Humoural Passions and Seasoned Cares
Lecture given in 2004 at a conference at Barnard, "Medicine Across Cultures: Medicine and the Mind, 600-1600".
Reason and Emotion in the Early Enlightenment
Presented in 2003, first at the Italian Academy, Columbia University, then as a University Professors Occasional Lecture at Boston University.