Interpreting Avicenna: Science and Philosophy in Medieval Islam

Proceedings of the Second Conference of the Avicenna Study Group
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-13960-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 56, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 630 g

Reihe: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies

This volume provides twelve essays on various aspects of Avicenna's philosophical and scientific contributions, approaching these topics from philological, historical and philosohical methodologies. The work is conceptually divided into four sections: (1) methodology, (2) natural philosophy and the exact sciences, (3) theology and metaphysics and (4) Avicenna's heritage.
The First section provides considerations for distinguishing genuine from pseudo Avicennan works. The second section deals with topics encountered in Avicenna's physics, psychology, mathematics and medical theories. The third section treats issues ranging from the theological sources for Avicenna's proof for the existence of God and God's knowledge of particulars to the place of puzzles in Avicenna's Metaphysics as well as the relation of form and matter in Avicenna's thought. The final section considers Avicenna's historical influence on later thinkers such as al-Ghazali as well as his subsequent influence in Persia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McGinnis, Jon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Islamische & Arabische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 7. - 14. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Jon McGinnis, Ph.D. (2000) in Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, is Assistant Professor of classical and medieval philosophy at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. He has published on ancient and Arabic medieval temporal theories specifically and more generally on Avicennan physics and philosophy of science.