Partitioning the Soul : Debates from Plato to Leibniz

Does the soul have parts? What kind of parts? And how do all the parts make together a whole? Many ancient, medieval and early modern philosophers discussed these questions, thus providing a mereological analysis of the soul.

The eleven chapters reconstruct and critically examine radically different theories.

They make clear that the question of how a single soul can have an internal complexity was a crucial issue for many classical thinkers.