Interpreting Avicenna : critical essays / edited by Peter Adamson.
"Avicenna is the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world. His immense impact on Christian and Jewish medieval thought, as well as on the subsequent Islamic tradition, is charted in this volume alongside studies which provide a comprehensive introduction to and analysis of his philosophy. Cont...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. The life and times of Avicenna: patronage and learning in medieval Islam / David C. Reisman
- 2. Avicenna's philosophical project / Dimitri Gutas
- 3. Avicenna on the syllogism / Tony Street
- 4. Avicenna's natural philosophy / Jon McGinnis
- 5. Avicenna on medical practice, epistemology, and the physiology of the inner senses / Peter E. Pormann
- 6. Avicenna's epistemological optimism / Dag Nikolaus Hasse
- 7. Certitude, justification, and the principles of knowledge in Avicenna's epistemology / Deborah L. Black
- 8. Avicenna's metaphysics / Stephen Menn
- 9. From the necessary existent to God / Peter Adamson
- 10. Avicenna's Islamic reception / Robert Wisnovsky
- 11. The reception of Avicenna in Jewish cultures, East and West / Gad Freudenthal and Mauro Zonta
- 12. Avicenna's Christian reception in Latin medieval culture / Amos Bertolacci.