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18The 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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40Making 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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34A penetrating question in the history of ideas: Space, dimensionality and interpenetration in the thought of avicennaArabic Sciences and Philosophy 16 (1): 47-69. 2006.Avicenna's discussion of space is found in his comments on Aristotle's account of place. Aristotle identified four candidates for place: a body's matter, form, the occupied space, or the limits of the containing body, and opted for the last. Neoplatonic commentators argued contra Aristotle that a thing's place is the space it occupied. Space for these Neoplatonists is something possessing dimensions and distinct from any body that occupies it, even if never devoid of body. Avicenna argues that t…Read more
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6The paper treats Avicenna’s ’metaphysical’ argument for the existence of God and the modal metaphysics that underpins it. Earlier analyses of modalities attempted to reduce necessity, possibility and impossibility to nonmodal elements, which was done most commonly by appealing to a temporal frequency model of modalities. In contrast, Avicenna believed that modalities were an inherent feature of existence, and so just as there is nothing more basic than existence, so likewise there is nothing mor…Read more
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11Aristoteles' "De Anima": Eine verlorene spätantike Paraphrase in arabischer und persischer Überlieferung by Rüdiger Arnzen (review)Isis 92 381-382. 2001.
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52The Avicennan Sources for Aquinas on Being: Supplemental Remarks to Brian Davies’ “Kenny on Aquinas on Being”Modern Schoolman 82 (2): 131-142. 2005.
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19Old Complexes and New Possibilities: Ibn Sīnā’s Modal Metaphysics in ContextJournal of Islamic Philosophy 7 3-33. 2011.
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28A Medieval Arabic Analysis Of Motion At An Instant: the Avicennan sources to the forma fluens/fluxus formae debateBritish Journal for the History of Science 39 (2): 189-205. 2006.The forma fluens/fluxus formae debate concerns the question as to whether motion is something distinct from the body in motion, the flow of a distinct form identified with motion , or nothing more than the successive states of the body in motion, the flow of some form found in one of Aristotle's ten categories . Although Albertus Magnus introduced this debate to the Latin West he drew his inspiration from Avicenna. This study argues that Albertus misclassified Avicenna's position, since Albertus…Read more
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12شفاء : سماع الطبيعي: A Parallel English-Arabic Text (edited book)Brigham Young University. 2009.Avicenna’s _Physics_ is the very first volume that he wrote when he began his monumental encyclopedia of science and philosophy, _The_ _Healing_. Avicenna’s reasons for beginning with _Physics_ are numerous: it offers up the principles needed to understand such special natural sciences as psychology; it sets up many of the problems that take center stage in his _Metaphysics_; and it provides concrete examples of many of the abstract analytical tools that he would develop later in _Logic_. While …Read more
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27Relational Syllogisms and the History of Arabic Logic, 900–1900 (review)Speculum 88 (1): 283-284. 2013.
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2Making something of nothing: Privation, possibility, and potentiality in avicenna and AquinasThe Thomist 76 (4). 2012.
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8The work treats various aspects of Avicennan philosophy and science. The topics include methods for establishing an authentic Avicenna corpus, natural philosophy and science, theology and metaphysics and Avicenna's subsequent historical influence
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31A Small Discovery: Avicenna’s Theory of Minima NaturaliaJournal of the History of Philosophy 53 (1): 1-24. 2015.
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3The Ultimate Why Question: Why is There Anything at All Rather Than Nothing Whatsoever?Cath Univ Amer Pr. 2011.
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134Positioning 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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37Tony Roark , Aristotle on Time: A Study of the Physics . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 32 (6): 518-520. 2012.
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18An Annotated Bibliography on Ibn Sina: First SupplementJournal of the American Oriental Society 121 (3): 535. 2001.
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119Scientific 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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Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
History of Western Philosophy, Misc |
Areas of Interest
History of Western Philosophy, Misc |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |