In this period, the philosophy of Aristotle and particularly its concept of the soul, presented in his book De Anima, were a great influence to Western thinkers. According to Vidal and Ortega, "as the Aristotelian frameworks disintegrated in the seventeenth century, the soul ceased to be responsible for organic functions".
Aristotle Bust at Old Library, Trinity College Dublin
Inspired by the homonymous book by Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega, this timespace presents the authors' genealogy of the cerebral subject and the influence of the neurological discourse in human sciences, mental health and culture.