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41Life, Soul, or Both? Falsafa vs. Kalām in Avicenna’s PsychologyRevue de Métaphysique et de Morale 3 (3): 399-416. 2025.
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55Science of the Soul in Ibn Sīnā’s Pointers and Reminders: A Philological Study, by Michael A. Rapoport (review)Vivarium 63 (2): 173-179. 2025.
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945Healing the Soul by Transforming the Body: A New Way of Framing Avicenna’s Science of the SoulIn Alessandro Palazzo & Francesca Bonini (eds.), Medical and Philosophical Perspectives on Illness and Disease in the Middle Ages, E-theca Onlineopenaccess Edizioni, Università Degli Studi Di Torino. pp. 108-131. 2024.Although scholars acknowledged that Avicenna’s science of the soul stands at the crossroads between natural philosophy and metaphysics, thus combining an overall physical investigation of all sublunary souls with a trans-physical (or proto-metaphysical) inquiry into the human rational soul, this paper aims to show a further disciplinary entanglement within Avicenna’s science of the soul, which features in the aforementioned physical investigation and helps to frame it, that is, the interaction b…Read more
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37Subject, definition, activity: framing Avicenna's science of the soulde Gruyter. 2021.The series is devoted to the study of scientific and philosophical texts from the Classical and the Islamic world handed down in Arabic. Through critical text editions and monographs, it provides access to ancient scientific inquiry as it developed in a continuous tradition from Antiquity to the modern period. All editions are accompanied by translations and philological and explanatory notes.
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107Exercising impartiality to favor Aristotle: Avicenna and “the accomplished anatomists”Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 32 (2): 137-178. 2022.RésuméCet article analyse Ḥayawān III, 1 d'Avicenne, qui traite du désaccord bien connu entre médecins et philosophes sur l'origine des vaisseaux sanguins et des nerfs. Cependant, l'analyse proposée ne se limite pas à ce chapitre et à son sujet principal. L'objectif plus général de cet article est de reconstruire le contexte psycho-médical dans lequel s'inscrit l'exposé d'Avicenne, c'est-à-dire l'unicité de l’âme et les conditions qui en découlent pour l'animation du corps. L'article expose ensu…Read more
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96Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato’s Timaeus, by Aileen R. DasMind 132 (528): 1225-1232. 2022.That philosophy and medicine provide complementary forms of knowledge of the same subject is attested several times, by many authors, in various ways. For examp.
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36Is Nutrition a Sufficient Condition for Life?In Giouli Korobili & Roberto Lo Presti (eds.), Nutrition and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle and Aristotelianism, De Gruyter. pp. 221-258. 2020.In the opening lines of the Qānūn fī l-ṭibb (Canon of Medicine) Avicenna outlines the epistemological status of medicine: it is a derivative natural science, whose epistemological underpinnings are given in natural philosophy - the theoretical science to which medicine is said to be subordinated -, and their investigation is declared off-limits to the physician. In providing the theoretical setting of the medical investigation in the first book of the Qānūn, Avicenna lists the things that the ph…Read more
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74The soul of, the soul in itself, and the flying man experimentArabic Sciences and Philosophy 28 (2): 187-224. 2018.RésuméIl y a, dans le Nafs d'Avicenne, deux enquêtes cheminant dès le début en parallèle : celle sur l’âme comme entité relationnelle, toujours considérée dans sa connexion avec le corps, et celle sur l’âme humaine en elle-même. Les deux enquêtes visent à établir l'existence et l'essence de l’âme, respectivement en relation au corps dont elle est l’âme et en soi-même. Le but de cette contribution est de reconstruire les étapes de ces enquêtes, afin de mettre en relief leur relation mutuelle, et …Read more