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The Life of Religion: A Marquette University Symposium on the Nature of Religious BeliefInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 23 (3): 182-183. 1988.
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5The Liber de causis: a preliminary list of extant mssBulletin de Philosophie Medievale 25 63-84. 1983.
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21Remarks on the Latin Text and the Translator of the Kal'm fi mahd al-khair / Liber de causisBulletin de Philosophie Medievale 31 75-102. 1989.
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100The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2004.Philosophy written in Arabic and in the Islamic world represents one of the great traditions of Western philosophy. Inspired by Greek philosophical works and the indigenous ideas of Islamic theology, Arabic philosophers from the ninth century onwards put forward ideas of great philosophical and historical importance. This collection of essays, by some of the leading scholars in Arabic philosophy, provides an introduction to the field by way of chapters devoted to individual thinkers or groups, e…Read more
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2The "Liber de Causis": . A Study of Medieval NeoplatonismDissertation, University of Toronto (Canada). 1982.The Kalam fi mahd al-khair, generally known in the West as the Liber de causis, is a small collection of propositions devoted, for the most part, to a consideration of the First Cause and the higher realities of Medieval and Ancient Metaphysics. While this work appears not to have had great influence in the Islamic Philosophical milieu, its Twelfth Century Latin translation played a fundamentally important role in the formation of Western Medieval thought and came to be adopted as part of the Me…Read more
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11A collection of five essays in which the religious experiences and activities of individuals, communities, and cultures are seen as preeminently rational responses to reality. Of interest to students and scholars of technology and philosophy
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19American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 662American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 85 (4). 2011.
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70Personal Immortality in Averroes' Mature Philosophical PsychologyDocumenti E Studi Sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 9 87-110. 1998.L'A. esamina in particolare il Commento grande al De anima. In primo luogo evidenzia l'insegnamento averroista in relazione al tema dell'intelletto e dell'individuo, in secondo luogo esamina alcune proposizioni relative all'immortalità dell'anima individuale, ma sottolinea la difficoltà di conciliare tali affermazioni di Averroè con la dottrina dell'intelletto. L'ultima parte dello studio propone un esame critico del recente studio di O.N. Mohammed, Averroes, Aristotle, and the Qur'an on Immorta…Read more
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122Averroes on psychology and the principles of metaphysicsJournal of the History of Philosophy 36 (4): 507-523. 1998.Averroes asserts in his Long Commentary on the De Anima and in his Long Commentary on the Metaphysics that principles of the science of metaphysics are established in the science of psychology. In psychology, human intellectual understanding is found to require the separate agent intellect for the coming to be of knowledge. The analysis of human psychology establishes that intellect must exist and must be separate from the human being in existence. Moreover there exists potency in those things c…Read more
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80Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on Intellect (review)Philosophical Review 106 (3): 482-485. 1997.After a very brief introduction, Davidson begins with an informed and detailed account of the views of Aristotle and his major commentators, whose writings had enormous influence on the development of the medieval traditions. Davidson's account is supplemented with a critical exposition of the relevant teachings from the Plotiniana Arabica, from al-Kindi, and from a treatise on the soul attributed to Porphyry in the Arabic tradition. Impressive as all this is, it is simply stage setting for Davi…Read more
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12Tolle Lege: Essays on Augustine and on Medieval Philosophy in Honor of Roland J. Teske, Sj (edited book)Marquette University Press. 2011.With his clear and accessible prose, impeccable scholarship, and balanced Judgment, Roland Teske, SJ, has been an influential and important voice in Medieval philosophy for more than thirty years. This volume, in his honour, brings together more than a dozen essays on central metaphysical and theological themes in Augustine and other medieval thinkers. The authors, listed below, are noted scholars who draw upon Teskes work, reflect on it, go beyond it, and at times even disagree with it, but alw…Read more
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19Introduction: Aquinas and the Arabic Philosophical TraditionAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 88 (2): 191-193. 2014.
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42The Arabic philosophical tradition played an important role in the formation of theological, philosophical and scientific thought in medieval Europe subsequent to the translations from Arabic into Latin in the 12th and 13th centuries. The influence of that Arabic classical rationalist tradition in works by al-Farabi, Avicenna, Averroes and the Liber de causis is evident in the thought of Thomas Aquinas, though the breadth and depth of that influence is often insufficiently noted and explained by…Read more
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17Long Commentary on the de Anima of Aristotle (edited book)Yale University Press. 2009.Born in 1126 to a family of Maliki legal scholars, Ibn Rushd, known as Averroes, enjoyed a long career in religious jurisprudence at Seville and Cordoba while at the same time advancing his philosophical studies of the works of Aristotle. This translation of Averroes’ Long Commentary on Aristotle’s _De Anima_ brings to English-language readers the complete text of this influential work of medieval philosophy. Richard C. Taylor provides rich notes on the Long Commentary and a generous introductio…Read more
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21Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Rushd (ca. 1126-98), who came to be known in the Latin West as Averroes, was born at Cordoba into a family prominent for its expert devotion to the study and development of religious law (shar'ia). In Arabic sources al-Hafid (“the Grandson”) is added to his name to distinguish him from his grandfather (d. 1126), a famous Malikite jurist who served the ruling Almoravid regime as qadi (judge) and even as imam (prayer leader and chief religious autho…Read more
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91Abstraction in al-FârâbîProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 80 151-168. 2006.Al-Fârâbî’s thought on intellect was known to the Latin West through the translation of his Letter on the Intellect, through the Long Commentary on the De Anima by Averroes and through some other works. Al-Fârâbî identified the active power of intellect in Aristotle’s De Anima 3.5 as the unique and separately existing Agent Intellect, but the role of the Agent Intellect in forming intelligibles in act in the human soul is by no means unequivocally clear. Further, the apprehension of intelligible…Read more
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67Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on Intellect: Their Cosmologies, Theories of the Active Intellect, and Theories of Human IntellectPhilosophical Review 106 (3): 482. 1997.After a very brief introduction, Davidson begins with an informed and detailed account of the views of Aristotle and his major commentators, whose writings had enormous influence on the development of the medieval traditions. Davidson's account is supplemented with a critical exposition of the relevant teachings from the Plotiniana Arabica, from al-Kindi, and from a treatise on the soul attributed to Porphyry in the Arabic tradition. Impressive as all this is, it is simply stage setting for Davi…Read more
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16Joan Kung 1938 - 1987Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 60 (5). 1987.
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57St. Thomas and the Liber de causis on the Hylomorphic Composition of Separate SubstancesMediaeval Studies 41 (1): 506-513. 1979.
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47Intellect as intrinsic formal cause in the soul according to Aquinas and AverroesIn Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth & John Myles Dillon (eds.), The afterlife of the Platonic soul: reflections of Platonic psychology in the monotheistic religions, Brill. pp. 187-220. 2009.