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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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10Simone 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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31Willful 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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44Making 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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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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35A 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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36The 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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15Aristoteles' "De Anima": Eine verlorene spätantike Paraphrase in arabischer und persischer Überlieferung by Rüdiger Arnzen (review)Isis 92 381-382. 2001.
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20Old Complexes and New Possibilities: Ibn Sīnā’s Modal Metaphysics in ContextJournal of Islamic Philosophy 7 3-33. 2011.
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6شفاء : 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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29A 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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19Relational 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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9The 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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3The Ultimate Why Question: Why is There Anything at All Rather Than Nothing Whatsoever?Cath Univ Amer Pr. 2011.
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