daniel.samuel@postgrad.sas.ac.uk
Research Interests
Renaissance Philosophy | Early Modern Philosophy | History of Medicine | History of Science | Neoplatonism
Year PhD started
2019
Thesis
The Passions in English Medicine and Science (1600-1680): The Transformation of Emotion across Body, Spirit and Soul
My project traces how ‘the passions of the soul’ (such as anger, fear and joy) were understood to affect bodily health over the course of the seventeenth century in England.
Supervisors: Sara Miglietti (main) John Tresch (second supervisor)