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Author Avicenna Study Group. Conference (2nd : 2002 : Mainz, Germany)

Title Interpreting Avicenna : science and philosophy in medieval Islam : proceedings of the Second Conference of the Avicenna Study Group / edited by Jon McGinnis with the assistance of David C. Reisman
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 262 pages) : illustrations
Series Islamic philosophy, theology, and science, 0169-8729 ; v. 56
Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; v. 56. 0169-8729
Contents The Pseudo-Avicennan Corpus, I: methodological considerations / David C. Reisman -- Ibn Sīnā on chance in the Physics of aš-Šifāʼ / Catarina Belo -- On the moment of substantial change: a vexed question in the history of ideas / Jon McGinnis -- Intellect, soul and body in Ibn Sīnā: systematic synthesis and development of the Aristotelian, Neoplatonic and Galenic theories / Robert E. Hall -- Non-discursive thought in Avicenna's commentary on the Theology of Aristotle / Peter Adamson -- The conception of the angle in the works of Ibn Sīnā and aš-Šīrāzī / Irina Luther -- Avicenna's argument for the existence of God: was he really influenced by the Mutakallimūn? / Ömer Mahir Alper -- Reconsidering Avicenna's position on God's knowledge of particulars / Rahim Acar -- The reception of Book B (Beta) of Aristotle's Metaphysics in the Ilāhīyāt of Avicenna's Kitāb aš-Šifāʼ / Amos Bertolacci -- The relation between form and matter: some brief observations on the 'homology argument' (Ilāhīyāt, II. 4) and the deduction of Fluxus / Olga Lizzini -- The three properties of prophethood in certain works of Avicenna and al-Ġazālī / M. Afifi al-Akiti -- Resurrection (maʻād) in the Persian Ḣayāt an-Nufūs of Ismāʻīl Ibn Muḥammad Rīzī: the Avicennan background / Roxanne D. Marcotte
Summary This volume provides twelve essays on various aspects of Avicenna's philosophical and scientific contributions, approaching these topics from philological, historical and philosohical methodologies. The work is conceptually divided into four sections: (1) methodology, (2) natural philosophy and the exact sciences, (3) theology and metaphysics and (4) Avicenna's heritage. The First section provides considerations for distinguishing genuine from pseudo Avicennan works. The second section deals with topics encountered in Avicenna's physics, psychology, mathematics and medical theories. The third section treats issues ranging from the theological sources for Avicenna's proof for the existence of God and God's knowledge of particulars to the place of puzzles in Avicenna's Metaphysics as well as the relation of form and matter in Avicenna's thought. The final section considers Avicenna's historical influence on later thinkers such as al-Ghazali as well as his subsequent influence in Persia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-251) and indexes
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Subject Avicenna, 980-1037 -- Congresses
Avicenna, 980-1037
Islamic philosophy -- Congresses
Philosophy, Medieval -- Congresses
Islam and science -- History -- Congresses
PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
Islam and science
Islamic philosophy
Philosophy, Medieval
Wetenschap.
Islamitische filosofie.
Moyen Âge.
Philosophie islamique.
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789047405818
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9789004139602
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