Analytic Philosophy and Avicenna

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 volume is a key resource for researchers and students interested in comparative and analytic epistemology and metaphysics, and Islamic philosophy.

Autorentext

Mohammad Azadpur is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. His work brings Islamic philosophers into dialogue with modern European and Anglo-American philosophers. His first book, Reason Unbound (2011), explored the primacy of ethics in the activity of philosophy.

Inhalt

Introduction: Avicenna and the Sellarsian Account of Experience 1. Sellars on the Empirical Grounds of Knowledge 2. Sellars on the Pseudo-intentionality of the Senses 3. Perennial Philosophy: Against Scientism and Reason-nature Dualism 4. Avicenna's Empiricism: Meno's Dilemma and the Sensory Grounds of Knowledge 5. The Mind's Involvement in Sense Perception: Avicenna on Sensory Intentionality and the Unity of Being Conclusion: On Avicenna and the so-called Common Medieval View