Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition

The human embryo: Aristotle and the Arabic and European traditions

G. R. DUNSTAN (ed.), The human embryo: Aristotle and the Arabic and European traditions, University of Exeter Press, 1990, 8vo, pp. xi, 235 £25.00. This volume contains the proceedings of a conference organized by Professor G. R. Dunstan at the University of Exeter in March 1988 to commemorate the eight-hundredth anniversary of the death of Constantine the African, which is presumed to have tak...

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

Ali Benmakhlouf, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nice, France Ahmad Hasnawi, CNRS, Paris 7, France Olga Pombo, President of the Centre of Philosophy of Science, FCUL, Portugal Shahid Rahman, Professor of Logic and Epistemology at the University of Lille 3, France Roshdi Rashed, CNRS, Paris 7, France Hassan Tahiri, CFCUL, Portugal Nuno Melim, Scientific Collaborator at the CFCUL, Po...

Moderation between tradition tradition and modernism the experience of Isfahan`s Jooybareh neighborhood

evaluation of the arabic translation of "aristotle's syllogistic" (book 2)

about 11 centuries after its emergence, aristotle's organon was translated into arabic; and, based on such translations, scholars such as farabi and ibn sina created logical works in the islamic world. because of these works, logic emerged and flourished among muslims. through analysis and evaluation of the first translations of organon, we may get familiar with, on the one hand, attention...

The Soul of Aristotle

In the three books of De Anima, Aristotle ranges over a diverse array of philosophical and scientific topics, such as the nature of life, self-movement, the senses, perception, imagination, thought, and the relation between mind and body. As a result, this work may seem to be a strange collection of only marginally related philosophical and biological topics given our modern sensibilities. None...