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

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

the demise of the logical positivism programme. The answers given to these qu- tions have deepened the already existing gap between philosophy and the history and practice of science. While the positivists argued for a spontaneous, steady and continuous growth of scientific knowledge the post-positi...

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Other Authors: Rahman, Shahid (Editor), Street, Tony (Editor), Tahiri, Hassan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
Series:Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, 11
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
History.
Epistemology.
Logic.
Philosophy.
Arabic language.
Medieval philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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