Dr. Robert Vinkesteijn

Dr. Robert Vinkesteijn

Researcher
History of Philosophy
r.w.vinkesteijn@uu.nl

Monographs


Vinkesteijn, R. (2022) Philosophical Perspectives on Galen of Pergamum: Four Case-Studies on Human Nature and the Relation Between Body and Soul. in Philosophia Antiqua Series, Brill. 357 pp. (open access)
review: https://philpapers.org/rec/DEVPPO 

Vinkesteijn, R. (2025) The Language of Melancholy. An Historical-Philosophical Exploration of its Potential. Routledge. 254 pp. (open access)


Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters

Vinkesteijn, R. (forthcoming) ‘The Melancholic in Aristotle’ in I. Kupreeva and T. Tieleman, eds. Ancient Life Sciences. Aristotelian and Hellenistic Approaches.  Proceedings of the Utrecht-Edinburgh Workshops 2019-2020, in Philosophia Antiqua Series, Brill.

Vinkesteijn, R. (forthcoming) Galen's Use of the River-Metaphor in Timaeus 43A, in ed. Tieleman, T. Studies in Ancient Medicine Series, Brill Publishers  

Vinkesteijn, R. (2024) ‘Galen’s Timaeus’, in ed. Prins, J.W. and Thomas, E. V. The Legacy of Plato’s Timaeus. in Brill Studies in Intellectual History

Vinkesteijn, R. (2022) ‘Philosophy and the Daimonic in Plato’, in ed. Pachoumi, E.  Conceptualising Divine Unions in the Ancient Greek and Near Eastern Worlds, Brill Publishers

Vinkesteijn, R. (2021) ‘The Vegetative Soul in Galen’ in ed. Baldassarri F. and Blank, A. Vegetative Powers: The Roots of Life in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Springer Nature, pp. 55-72

Vinkesteijn, R. (2020) ‘Mixing body and soul: Galen on the Substance of Soul in QAM and De Propriis Placitis’ in Phronesis 65 (2) pp 224-246

 

See also: https://uu.academia.edu/RVinkesteijn