Mohammad Azadpur

Analytic Philosophy and Avicenna

Knowing the Unknown

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Produktbeschreibung

This work engages in a constructive, yet subtle, dialogue with the nuanced accounts of sensory intentionality and empirical knowledge offered by the Islamic philosopher, Avicenna. This volume is a key resource for researchers and students interested in comparative and analytic epistemology and metaphysics, and Islamic philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Islamic Philosophy
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 153mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9781032048697
• ISBN-10: 1032048697
• Artikelnr.: 62952651

Autorenporträt

Mohammad Azadpur is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. His work brings Islamic philosophers into dialogue with modern European and Anglo-American philosophers. His first book, Reason Unbound (2011), explored the primacy of ethics in the activity of philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Avicenna and the Sellarsian Account of Experience 1. Sellars
on the Empirical Grounds of Knowledge 2. Sellars on the
Pseudo-intentionality of the Senses 3. Perennial Philosophy: Against
Scientism and Reason-nature Dualism 4. Avicenna's Empiricism: Meno's
Dilemma and the Sensory Grounds of Knowledge 5. The Mind's Involvement in
Sense Perception: Avicenna on Sensory Intentionality and the Unity of Being
Conclusion: On Avicenna and the so-called Common Medieval View