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7Creation and the God of Abraham Edited by D. B. Burrell, C. Cogliati, J. M. Soskice, and W. R. Stoeger (review)Journal of Islamic Studies 23 (1): 89-91. 2012.
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7Interroga virtutes naturales: Nature in Giles of Rome’s On Ecclesiastical PowerVivarium 57 (1-2): 22-50. 2019.Giles of Rome’s On Ecclesiastical Power, a polemical work arguing for the political supremacy of the pope, claims that the papacy holds a ‘plenitude of power’ and has direct or indirect authority over all aspects of human life. This paper shows how Giles uses themes from natural philosophy in developing his argument. He compares cosmic and human ordering and draws an analogy between the relations of soul to body and of Church to state. He also understands the pope’s power to be ‘universal’ in na…Read more
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6Avicenna and his Commentators on Human and Divine Self-IntellectionIn Dag Nikolaus Hasse & Amos Bertolacci (eds.), The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna's Metaphysics, De Gruyter. pp. 97-122. 2011.
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6Knowing what’s good for youThe Philosophers' Magazine 53 85-90. 2011.We should see a very close connection between two fields of philosophy which are nowadays kept well apart, namely ethics and epistemology. Indeed, if the good life and virtue consist in knowledge, then the study of knowledge just is the study of ethics.
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6Al-RāzīOxford University Press. 2021.This book introduces readers to Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (known as Rhazes in Latin), one of the most innovative and divisive figures of the early philosophical tradition in the Islamic world. It attempts to reconstruct his notorious theory of "five eternals" which posited four principles alongside God for the creation of the world, which led Razi to be charged with heresy by other authors. Other topics discussed in depth include his medical works, his alchemical theories, his works on ethics, and his…Read more
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5Knowing Persons: A Study in Plato (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 45 (1): 138-140. 2005.
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4Knowledge of Universals and Particulars in the Baghdad SchoolDocumenti E Studi Sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 18 141-164. 2007.L'analisi dell'aristotelismo «platonizzante» nell'ambito della filosofia araba prima della sistemazione della Shifa di Avicenna, secondo cui Dio non avrebbe conoscenza dei particolari, consente all'A. di dimostrare come ci siano stati anche approcci platonici ad Aristotele , che non sono passati attraverso il filtro dei neoplatonici greci. L'altra cosa significativa è il fatto che all'interno della scuola di Baghdad vi sono modi diversi di intendere lo stato ontologico degli universali. L'A. ten…Read more
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4Health: A History (edited book)Oup Usa. 2018.This book brings together contributions by historians of philosophy and medicine to trace the concept of health from ancient Greece and China, through the Islamic world, down to modern thinkers like Descartes and Freud. Major themes include the parallel between mental and physical health and the difficulty of defining health.
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4Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman worldsOxford University Press. 2015.Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the sixth century AD. He introduces us to Cynics and Skeptics, Epicureans and Stoics, emperors and slaves, and traces the development of Christian and Jewish philosophy and of ancient science. Chapters are devoted to such major figures as Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca, Plotinus, and Augustine. But in …Read more
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2Studies on early Arabic philosophyAshgate. 2015.Philosophy in the Islamic world from the 9th to 11th centuries was characterized by an engagement with Greek philosophical works in Arabic translation. This volume collects papers on both the Greek philosophers in their new Arabic guise, and on reactions to the translation movement in the period leading up to Avicenna.
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