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Averroës' physics : a turning point in medieval natural philosophy / Ruth Glasner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glasner, Ruth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Averroës, 1126-1198.
- Averroës.
- Aristotle. Physics.
- Aristotle.
- Physics--Philosophy--History--To 1500.
- Physics.
- Philosophy, Medieval.
- Science, Medieval.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 229 pages)
- Other Title:
- Turning point in medieval natural philosophy
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ruth Glasner presents an illuminating reappraisal of Averroes' physics. Glasner is the first scholar to base her interpretation on the full range of Averroes' writings, including texts that are extant only in Hebrew manuscripts and have not been hitherto studied. She reveals that Averroes changed his interpretation of the basic notions of physics - the structure of corporeal reality and the definition of motion - more than once. After many hesitations he offers a bold newinterpretation of physics which Glasner calls 'Aristotelian atomism'. Ideas that are usually ascribed to scholastic scholars
- Contents:
- Introduction : science through exegesis
- The complexity of Averroes' writing
- Description of the corpus
- The short commentary
- The middle commentary
- The long commentary
- The Questions in physics
- The order of writing
- The changing cultural contexts
- Versions and revisions
- The late stratum of the long commentary
- The formal introduction
- The uses of syllogism
- The turning to Alexander
- Averroes' new physics
- The turning point of Physics VIII : the breakdown of determinism
- The challenge of indeterminism
- Conflicting messages in Aristotle
- The story of the middle commentary
- The riddle of the long commentary
- The turning point of Physics VI : the breakdown of motion
- Introduction : The various concepts of motion in Aristotle's Physics
- Aristotle's divisibility argument : a crack in the interval model of motion (Physics VI.4)
- Physics V reinterpreted : from homogeneity to heterogeneity
- Physics VI reinterpreted : from a continuous interval to a contiguous chain
- Physics III reintepreted : from dimensional entity to boundary entity
- When did the turning point occur?
- The turning point of Physics VII : the breakdown of physical body
- Can physical body be a true homoeomer?
- Aristotle's moving-agent argument (physics VII.1)
- Alexander vs. Galen on the meaning of essentiality
- Averroes' notion of first-moved part
- Averroes' 'Aristotelian' atomism
- The 'divorce' between mathematics and physics
- When did the turning point occur?
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [176]-194) and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-160997-8
- 1-282-36596-7
- 9786612365966
- 0-19-157034-6
- OCLC:
- 463184558
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