The Unity of Science in the Arabic Tradition: Science, Logic, Epistemology and their Interactions

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction: The Major Breakthrough in Scientific Pratice....Pages 1-40
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
Ibn Sī:nā’s Philosophy of Mathematics....Pages 43-61
Avicenna on Self-Awareness and Knowing that One Knows....Pages 63-87
A Conceptual Analysis of Early Arabic Algebra....Pages 89-128
Avicenna’s Naturalized Epistemology and Scientific Method*....Pages 129-152
The Philosophy of Mathematics....Pages 153-182
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....Pages 183-225
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
Jiha/Tropos-Mādda/Hūlē Distinction in Arabic Logic and its Significance for Avicenna’s Modals....Pages 229-253
Islamic Logic?....Pages 255-279
Logical Fragments in Ibn Khaldūn’s Muqaddimah....Pages 281-294
Avicenna on the Quantification of the Predicate (with an Appendix on [Ibn Zur‛a])....Pages 295-328
Name ( ism ), Derived Name ( ism mushtaqq ) and Description ( waṣf ) in Arabic Grammar, Muslim Dialectical Theology and Arabic Logic....Pages 329-360
Logic and Metaphysics in Avicenna’s Modal Syllogistic....Pages 361-376
Back Matter....Pages 377-390