Analytic Philosophy and Avicenna (Routledge Studies in Islamic Philosophy)

Azadpur, Mohammad

ISBN 10: 1032048697 / ISBN 13: 9781032048697

Published by Routledge, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Analytic Philosophy and Avicenna (Routledge Studies in Islamic Philosophy)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032048697
• ISBN 13: 9781032048697
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.