Analytic Philosophy and Avicenna: Knowing the Unknown

ISBN-13: 9780367434229 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 128 str.

Mohammad Azadpur

Opis

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 volume is a key resource for researchers and students interested in comparative and analytic epistemology and metaphysics, and Islamic philosophy.

Spis treści

Introduction: Avicenna and the Sellarsian Account of Experience  1. Sellars on the Empirical Grounds of Knowledge  2. Sellars on the Pseudo-intentionality of the Senses  3. Perennial Philosophy: Against Scientism and Reason-nature Dualism  4. Avicenna’s Empiricism: Meno’s Dilemma and the Sensory Grounds of Knowledge  5. The Mind’s Involvement in Sense Perception: Avicenna on Sensory Intentionality and the Unity of Being  Conclusion: On Avicenna and the so-called Common Medieval View

O autorze

Mohammad Azadpur is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. His work brings Islamic philosophers into dialogue with modern European and Anglo-American philosophers. His first book, Reason Unbound (2011), explored the primacy of ethics in the activity of philosophy.