Interpreting Avicenna : science and philosophy in medieval Islam : proceedings of the Second Conference of the Avicenna Study Group / edited by Jon McGinnis with the assistance of David C. Reisman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Avicenna Study Group. Conference (2nd : 2002 : Mainz, Germany)

Series:

Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; v. 56.

Islamic philosophy, theology, and science, 0169-8729 ; v. 56

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic philosophy--Congresses.

Islamic philosophy.

Philosophy, Medieval--Congresses.

Philosophy, Medieval.

Islam and science--History--Congresses.

Islam and science.

Avicenna, 980-1037--Congresses.

Avicenna.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Note on the Transliteration of Arabic and Persian; Introduction; Chapter One. The Pseudo-Avicennan Corpus, I: Methodological Considerations (David C. Reisman (University of Illinois, Chicago)); Chapter Two. Ibn Sina on Chance in the Physics of aš-šifa' (Catarina Belo (University of Oxford)); Chapter Three. On the Moment of Substantial Change: A Vexed Question in the History of Ideas (Jon McGinnis (University of Missouri, St. Louis))

Chapter Four. Intellect, Soul and Body in Ibn Sina: Systematic Synthesis and Development of the Aristotelian, Neoplatonic and Galenic Theories (Robert E. Hall (Queen's University, Belfast))Chapter Five. Non-Discursive Thought in Avicenna's Commentary on the Theology of Aristotle (Peter Adamson (King's College, London)); Chapter Six. The Conception of the Angle in the Works of Ibn Sina and aš-širazi (Irina Luther (Russian Academy of Sciences)); Chapter Seven. Avicenna's Argument for the Existence of God: Was He Really Influenced by the Mutakallimun? (Ömer Mahir Alper (Istanbul University))

Chapter Eight. Reconsidering Avicenna's Position on God's Knowledge of Particulars (Rahim Acar (Marmara University))Chapter Eleven. The Three Properties of Prophethood in Certain Works of Avicenna and al-gazali (M. Afifi al-Akiti (University of Oxford)); Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-251) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-280-85967-9

9786610859672

90-474-0581-1

1-4337-0404-8

OCLC:

171561505

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047405818 DOI