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141Positioning Heaven: The Infidelity of a Faithful AristotelianPhronesis 51 (2): 140-161. 2006.Aristotle's account of place in terms of an innermost limit of a containing body was to generate serious discussion and controvery among Aristotle's later commentators, especially when it was applied to the cosmos as a whole. The problem was that since there is nothing outside of the cosmos that could contain it, the cosmos apparently could not have a place according to Aristotle's definition; however, if the cosmos does not have a place, then it is not clear that it could move, but it was thoug…Read more
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Logic and Science: The Role of Genus and Difference in Avicenna's Logic, Science and Natural PhilosophyDocumenti E Studi Sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 18 165-186. 2007.Il naturale senso della logica in relazione alla scienza è quello di fornire un linguaggio alle acquisizioni epistemologiche: tale sembra essere il senso assegnatogli anche da Avicenna in al-Mantiq. La questione in realtà è molto più profonda: quale relazione c'è fra gli universali predicabili e gli oggetti della scienza? Attraverso l'esame della questione quale è delineata nel Madkhal, in particolare in merito al genere e alla differenza, e il loro ruolo nelle scienze in alcuni passaggi del Kit…Read more
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39Tony Roark , Aristotle on Time: A Study of the Physics . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 32 (6): 518-520. 2012.
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129Scientific Methodologies in Medieval IslamJournal of the History of Philosophy 41 (3): 307-327. 2003.: The present study considers Ibn Sînâ's (Lat. Avicenna) account of induction (istiqra') and experimentation (tajriba). For Ibn Sînâ induction purportedly provided the absolute, necessary and certain first principles of a science. Ibn Sînâ criticized induction, arguing that it can neither guarantee the necessity nor provide the primitiveness required of first principles. In it place, Ibn Sînâ developed a theory of experimentation, which avoids the pitfalls of induction by not providing absolute,…Read more
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23An Annotated Bibliography on Ibn Sina: First SupplementJournal of the American Oriental Society 121 (3): 535. 2001.
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22Intelligence and the Philosophy of MindProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 80 169-183. 2006.
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1What Underlies the Change from Potentiality to Possibility? A Select History of the Theory Matter from Aristotle to AvicennaCadernos de História E Filosofia da Ciência 17 (2). 2007.One of the most fundamental notions in the thought of Aristotle is the distinction between actuality and potentiality, which Aristotle links with the equally fundamental distinction between form and matter respectively. According to Aristotle, form, which brings with it actuality, and matter, which brings with it potentiality, are eternal and as such necessary. Consequently, on Aristotle?s view, neither form nor matter needs an efficient cause for its existence. Later thinkers?both in the Greek …Read more
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97The Eternity of the World: Proofs and Problems in Aristotle, Avicenna, and AquinasAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 88 (2): 271-288. 2014.This study looks at the position of two of the Middle Ages’ towering intellectual figures, Avicenna and Aquinas, and their arguments concerning the age of the cosmos. The primary focus is the nature of possibility and whether possibility is such that God can create it or such that its “existence” has some degree of independence from God’s creative act. It is shown how one’s answer to this initial question in turn has enormous ramifications on a number of other, core theological topics. These iss…Read more
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2Avicennan Infinity: A Select History of the Infinite through AvicennaDocumenti E Studi Sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 21 199-222. 2010.
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22Review of Peter Adamson (ed.), Richard C. Taylor (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (5). 2005.
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20Making Abstraction Less Abstract: The Logical, Psychological, and Metaphysical Dimensions of Avicenna’s Theory of AbstractionProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 80 169-183. 2006.A debated topic in Avicennan psychology is whether for Avicenna abstraction is a metaphor for emanation or to be taken literally. This issue stems from the deeper philosophical question of whether humans acquire intelligibles externally from an emanation by the Active Intellect, which is a separate substance, or internally from an inherently human cognitive process, which prepares us for an emanation from the Active Intellect. I argue that the tension between thesedoctrines is only apparent. In …Read more
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47Classical Arabic Philosophy: An Anthology of Sources (edited book)Hackett. 2007.This volume introduces the major classical Arabic philosophers through substantial selections from the key works (many of which appear in translation for the first time here) in each of the fields—including logic, philosophy of science, natural philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and politics—to which they made significant contributions. An extensive Introduction situating the works within their historical, cultural, and philosophical contexts offers support to students approaching the subject for …Read more
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71The Topology of Time: An Analysis of Medieval Islamic Accounts of Discrete and Continuous TimeModern Schoolman 81 (1): 5-25. 2003.
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36Alexander of Aphrodisias on the CosmosJournal of the American Oriental Society 124 (1): 103. 2004.
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13Simone van Riet, Jules Janssens and André Allard Avicenna Latinus, Liber primus naturalium, tractatus secundus: De motu et de consimilibus. Introduction by Gérard Verbeke. Leuven: Peeters, 2006. Pp. lxxxix+373. ISBN 978-2-8031-0231-0. £173.70 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 41 (1): 131-132. 2008.
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55Arabic and islamic natural philosophy and natural scienceStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.
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46Old Complexes and New Possibilities: Ibn Sīnā’s Modal Metaphysics in ContextJournal of Islamic Philosophy 7 3-33. 2011.
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13Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion. Studies in Honor of Dimitri Gutas Edited by Felicitas Opwis and David Reisman (review)Journal of Islamic Studies 25 (1): 56-60. 2014.
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39Willful Understanding: Avicenna’s Philosophy of Action and Theory of the WillArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 97 (2). 2015.Name der Zeitschrift: Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie Jahrgang: 97 Heft: 2 Seiten: 160-195
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28The Leaven of the Ancients: Suhrawardī and the Heritage of the GreeksThe Leaven of the Ancients: Suhrawardi and the Heritage of the GreeksJournal of the American Oriental Society 121 (4): 729. 2001.
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9Review of Y. Tzvi Langermann (ed.), Avicenna and His Legacy: A Golden Age of Science and Philosophy (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (9). 2010.
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43Making Abstraction Less Abstract: The Logical, Psychological, and Metaphysical Dimensions of Avicenna’s Theory of AbstractionProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 80 169-183. 2006.A debated topic in Avicennan psychology is whether for Avicenna abstraction is a metaphor for emanation or to be taken literally. This issue stems from the deeper philosophical question of whether humans acquire intelligibles externally from an emanation by the Active Intellect, which is a separate substance, or internally from an inherently human cognitive process, which prepares us for an emanation from the Active Intellect. I argue that the tension between thesedoctrines is only apparent. In …Read more
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History of Western Philosophy, Misc |
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History of Western Philosophy, Misc |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |