Interpreting Avicenna

Critical Essays
Herausgeber: Adamson, Peter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines many aspects of the philosophy of Avicenna, the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 610g
• ISBN-13: 9780521190732
• ISBN-10: 0521190738
• Artikelnr.: 36956930

Inhaltsangabe

1. The life and times of Avicenna: patronage and learning in medieval Islam David C. Reisman
2. Avicenna's philosophical project Dimitri Gutas
3. Avicenna on the syllogism Tony Street
4. Avicenna's natural philosophy Jon McGinnis
5. Avicenna and medicine Peter E. Pormann
6. Avicenna's epistemological optimism Dag Nikolaus Hasse
7. Certitude, justification, and the principles of knowledge in Avicenna's epistemology Deborah Black
8. Avicenna's metaphysics Stephen Menn
9. From the necessary existent to God Peter Adamson
10. Avicenna's Islamic reception Robert Wisnovsky
11. The reception of Avicenna in Jewish cultures, East and West Gad Freudenthal and Mauro Zonta
12. Avicenna's Christian reception Amos Bertolacci.