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This work engages in a constructive, yet subtle, dialogue with the
nuanced accounts of sensory intentionality and empirical knowledge
offered by the Islamic philosopher Avicenna. This discourse has two
main objectives: (1) providing an interpretation of Avicenna's
epistemology that avoids reading him as a precursor to British
empiricists or as a full-fledged emanatist and (2) bringing light
to the importance of Avicenna's account of experience to relevant
contemporary Anglo-American discussions in epistemology and
metaphysics. These two objectives are interconnected.
Anglo-American philosophy provides the framework for a novel
reading of Avicenna on knowledge and reality, and the latter, in
turn, contributes to adjusting some aspects of the former.
Advancing the Avicennian perspective on contemporary analytic
discourse, this volume is a key resource for researchers and
students interested in comparative and analytic epistemology and
metaphysics as well as Islamic philosophy.
This work engages in a constructive, yet subtle, dialogue with the
nuanced accounts of sensory intentionality and empirical knowledge
offered by the Islamic philosopher Avicenna. This discourse has two
main objectives: (1) providing an interpretation of Avicenna's
epistemology that avoids reading him as a precursor to British
empiricists or as a full-fledged emanatist and (2) bringing light
to the importance of Avicenna's account of experience to relevant
contemporary Anglo-American discussions in epistemology and
metaphysics. These two objectives are interconnected.
Anglo-American philosophy provides the framework for a novel
reading of Avicenna on knowledge and reality, and the latter, in
turn, contributes to adjusting some aspects of the former.
Advancing the Avicennian perspective on contemporary analytic
discourse, this volume is a key resource for researchers and
students interested in comparative and analytic epistemology and
metaphysics as well as Islamic philosophy.
This intriguing work offers a new perspective on Islamic
Peripatetic philosophy, critiquing modern receptions of such
thought and highlighting the contribution it can make to
contemporary Western philosophy. Mohammad Azadpur focuses on the
thought of Alfarabi and Avicenna, who, like ancient Greek
philosophers and some of their successors, viewed philosophy as a
series of spiritual exercises. However, Muslim Peripatetics
differed from their Greek counterparts in assigning importance to
prophecy. The Islamic philosophical account of the cultivation of
the soul to the point of prophecy unfolds new vistas of
intellectual and imaginative experience and accords the philosopher
an exceptional dignity and freedom. With reference to both Islamic
and Western philosophers, Azadpur discusses how Islamic Peripatetic
thought can provide an antidote to some of modernity s
philosophical problems. A discussion of the development of later
Islamic Peripatetic thought is also included."
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