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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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19One Way of AmbiguousAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 96 (4): 545-570. 2022.This study provides the historical background to, and analysis and translations of, two seminal texts from the medieval Islamic world concerning the univocity of being/existence and a theory of “ambiguous predication” (tashkīk), which is similar to the Thomistic theory of analogy. The disputants are Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (1149–1210), who defended a theory of the univocity of being, and Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1201–1274), who defended the theory of ambiguous predication. While the purported issue is…Read more
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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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18Making 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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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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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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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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12Creation and Eternity in Medieval PhilosophyIn Heather Dyke & Adrian Bardon (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Time, Wiley. 2013.This chapter on creation and eternity in medieval philosophy focuses on arguments for the world's age drawn from the nature of time. To this end, there are four main sections. The first covers proofs for the eternity of the world taken from the nature of time, with an emphasis on Aristotle's original argument for that thesis and then Avicenna's modal version of the proof. The second deals with rejoinders, based upon non‐Aristotelian conceptions of time, to proofs for the eternity of the world wi…Read more
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12Simone 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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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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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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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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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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5Teachers' perspectives of teaching science–technology–society in local cultures: A sociocultural analysisScience Education 83 (2): 179-211. 1999.
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4Medieval Philosophy of ReligionAcumen Publishing. 2013.Volume 2 covers one of the richest eras for the philosophical study of religion. Covering the period from the 6th century to the Renaissance, this volume shows how Christian, Islamic and Jewish thinkers explicated and defended their religious faith in light of the philosophical traditions they inherited from the ancient Greeks and Romans. The enterprise of 'faith seeking understanding', as it was dubbed by the medievals themselves, emerges as a vibrant encounter between - and a complex synthesis…Read more
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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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2Making something of nothing: Privation, possibility, and potentiality in avicenna and AquinasThe Thomist 76 (4). 2012.
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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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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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Making Time Aristotle's WayApeiron: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science 36 (2): 143-170. 2003.
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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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Interpreting Avicenna. Proceedings of the Second Conference of the Avicenna Study Group (edited book)Brill. 2004.
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Mind the gap : the reception of Avicenna's new argument against actually infinite spaceIn Hossein Ziai, Ahmed Alwishah, Ali Gheissari & John Walbridge (eds.), Illuminationist texts and textual studies: essays in memory of Hossein Ziai, Brill. 2018.
Areas of Specialization
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
History of Western Philosophy, Misc |
Areas of Interest
History of Western Philosophy, Misc |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |