Analytic Philosophy and Avicenna: Knowing the Unknown (Routledge Studies in Islamic Philosophy)

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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.
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2020

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9781000764710
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9781003003069, 9780367434229, 9780367434229
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Taylor and Francis
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Mohammad Azadpur, The right of Mohammad Azadpur to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections
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English
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History, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Philosophy
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