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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rahman, Shahid (Editor), Street, Tony (Editor), Tahiri, Hassan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Series: Logic, Epistemology, and The Unity of Science ; 11
• Subjects: History.; Epistemology.; Philosophy.; Logic.; Medieval philosophy.; Arabic language.; History of Science.; History of Philosophy.; Arabic.; Medieval Philosophy.

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...

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.