The Unity of Science in the Arabic Tradition : Science, Logic, Epistemology and their Interactions / edited by Shahid Rahman, Tony Street, Hassan Tahiri.

Springer eBooks

Introduction: The Major Breakthrough in Scientific Pratice -- Introduction: The Major Breakthrough in Scientific Pratice -- Epistemology and Philosophy of Science -- Ibn S?:n?’s Philosophy of Mathematics -- Avicenna on Self-Awareness and Knowing that One Knows -- A Conceptual Analysis of Early Arabic Algebra -- Avicenna’s Naturalized Epistemology and Scientific Method* -- The Philosophy of Mathematics -- The Birth of Scientific Controversies The Dynamics of the Arabic Tradition and Its Impact on the Development of Science: Ibn al-Haytham’s Challenge of Ptolemy’s Almagest -- Logic Philosophy and Grammar -- Jiha/Tropos-M?dda/H?l? Distinction in Arabic Logic and its Significance for Avicenna’s Modals -- Islamic Logic? -- Logical Fragments in Ibn Khald?n’s Muqaddimah -- Avicenna on the Quantification of the Predicate (with an Appendix on [Ibn Zur?a]) -- Name (ism), Derived Name (ism mushtaqq) and Description (wa?f) in Arabic Grammar, Muslim Dialectical Theology and Arabic Logic -- Logic and Metaphysics in Avicenna’s Modal Syllogistic.

This book is the first to reflect the multi-dimensional nature of the interplay between logic, science, philosophy and language in the Arabic tradition. It presents contributions from the world’s leading scholars and historians under the headings ‘Epistemology and Philosophy of Science’ and ‘Logic, Philosophy and Grammar’. The contents exemplify the liveliness of modern perspectives on the Arabic tradition. It describes new paths for research and understanding not normally raised in the approaches to this subject. It challenges the rigid distinction between Western and Eastern thought and opens the field for a new view on the development of modern science.

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