Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays book pdf download

Author: Peter Adamson

About the Author: Peter Adamson is an academic who is professor of late ancient and Arabic philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He is the host of the weekly Podcast “History of Philosophy without any gaps”.

Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays book pdf download By Peter Adamson

Avicenna is the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world. His immense impact on Christian and Jewish medieval thought, as well as on the subsequent Islamic tradition, is charted in this volume alongside studies which provide a comprehensive introduction to and analysis of his philosophy. Contributions from leading scholars address a wide range of topics including Avicenna’s life and works, conception of philosophy and achievement in logic and medicine. His ideas in the main areas of philosophy, such as epistemology, philosophy of religion and physics, are also analyzed. While serving as a general introduction to Avicenna’s thought, this collection of critical essays also represents the cutting edge of scholarship on this most influential philosopher of the medieval era. Explores the influence of Avicenna in Christianity as well as the Islamic and Jewish traditions Provides an understanding of how parts of Avicenna’s thought interrelate Examines a wide range of areas of Avicenna’s philosophy.

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