Interpreting Avicenna
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Interpreting Avicenna

Critical Essays

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Interpreting Avicenna

Critical Essays

About this book

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. Contributions from leading scholars address a wide range of topics including Avicenna's life and works, conception of philosophy and achievement in logic and medicine. His ideas in the main areas of philosophy, such as epistemology, philosophy of religion and physics, are also analyzed. While serving as a general introduction to Avicenna's thought, this collection of critical essays also represents the cutting edge of scholarship on this most influential philosopher of the medieval era.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Notes on contributors
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1 The life and times of Avicenna
  6. Chapter 2 Avicenna's philosophical project*
  7. Chapter 3 Avicenna on the syllogism
  8. Chapter 4 Avicennas natural philosophy
  9. Chapter 5 Avicenna on medical practice, epistemology, and the physiology of the inner senses
  10. Chapter 6 Avicenna's epistemological optimism
  11. Chapter 7 Certitude, justification, and the principles of knowledge in Avicenna's epistemology
  12. Chapter 8 Avicenna's metaphysics
  13. Chapter 9 From the necessary existent to God
  14. Chapter 10 Avicenna's Islamic reception
  15. Chapter 11 The reception of Avicenna in Jewish cultures, East and West
  16. Chapter 12 The reception of Avicenna in Latin medieval culture
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index