Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays

Peter Adamson (ed.)

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9781316505359

Contents

1. The life and times of Avicenna: patronage and learning in medieval Islam - David C. Reisman

2. Avicenna's philosophical project - Dimitri Gutas

3. Avicenna on the syllogism - Tony Street

4. Avicenna's natural philosophy - Jon McGinnis

5. Avicenna and medicine - Peter E. Pormann

6. Avicenna's epistemological optimism - Dag Nikolaus Hasse

7. Certitude, justification, and the principles of knowledge in Avicenna's epistemology - Deborah Black

8. Avicenna's metaphysics - Stephen Menn

9. From the necessary existent to God - Peter Adamson

10. Avicenna's Islamic reception - Robert Wisnovsky

11. The reception of Avicenna in Jewish cultures, East and West - Gad Freudenthal and Mauro Zonta

12. Avicenna's Christian reception - Amos Bertolacci