Interpreting Averroes

Critical Essays

Peter Adamson, Matteo Di Giovanni

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781107114883
• eBook ISBN: 9781108651578
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Medieval & Renaissance Philosophy

This volume brings together world-leading scholars on the thought of Averroes, the greatest medieval commentator on Aristotle but also a major scholar of Islam. The collection situates him in his historical context by emphasizing the way that he responded to the political situation of twelfth-century Islamic Spain and the provocations of Islamic theology. It also sheds light on the interconnections between aspects of his work that are usually studied separately, such as his treatises on logic and his legal writings. Advanced students and scholars will find authoritative and insightful treatments of Averroes' philosophy, tackled from multiple perspectives and written in a clear and accessible way that will appeal to those encountering his work for the first time as well as to anyone looking for new critical approaches to Averroes and his thinking.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Averroes, Philosopher of Islam
• Chapter 2 Dogmatics, Theology, and Philosophy in Averroes
• Chapter 3 Averroes on Juridical Reasoning
• Chapter 4 Averroes' Corrective Philosophy of Law
• Chapter 5 Averroes' Logic
• Chapter 6 Constructing Averroes' Epistemology
• Chapter 7 Averroes on Knowing Essences
• Chapter 8 Averroes and the ''Internal Senses''
• Chapter 9 Averroes on Medicine
• Chapter 10 Averroes' Natural Philosophy as Science of Nature
• Chapter 11 Averroes on Divine Causation
• Chapter 12 Averroes' Goals in the Paraphrase (Middle Commentary) of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
• Bibliography
• Index