Una explicación naturalista de los sueños: el fenómeno onírico en el pensamiento aristotélico

In this article the Aristotelian treatises De somno et vigila, De insomniis and De divinatione per somnum are read as a trilogy directed at discussing, from the point of view of physiology and psychology, the basis for the possibility that dreams could contain prophetic messages transmitted by the divinity. Aristotle emerges both as continuing in the medical and philosophical traditions that had devalued the premonitory virtue of dreams, and as innovating a strategy of providing a scientific foundation for the nature of oneiric phenomena.