Overview
- The first to reflect the multi-dimensional nature of the interplay beween logic, science, philosophy and language in the Arabic tradition
- Contains contributions from the world’s leading scholars and historians of science and philosophy
- Covers a wide range of topics including philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, the emergence of algebra, scientific controversies on the foundation of astronomy, rhetoric, tropos, modal logic and epistemic logic
Part of the book series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science (LEUS, volume 11)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction: The Major Breakthrough in Scientific Pratice
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Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
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Logic Philosophy and Grammar
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“This volume is full of such thought-provoking nuggets, and it will certainly make an enjoyable reading to philosophers, historians of philosophy, philosophers of science, historians of Islamic/Arabic culture, grammarians, belletrists, and certainly practicing scientists who wish to take a deep breath, away from their exhausting work at their laboratories, and stop to think of what they were doing.” (George Saliba, Metascience, Vol. 21, 2012)
"This is an impressive contribution both to the history of science and to the history of philosophy... Even for those who are not working in the history of science or philosophy the book is immensely appealing. Just to give an example, I was struck by the link between lemmata and middle terms . I will start by studying the chapter on Self-awareness and knowing that one knows and move next to Avicenna's naturalized epistemology. The whole book is relevant to contemporary philosophical issues. The account of the notion of "tropos" is a case in point." Paul Gochet, Pôle de Logique, Université de Liege, Belgium
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Unity of Science in the Arabic Tradition
Book Subtitle: Science, Logic, Epistemology and their Interactions
Editors: Shahid Rahman, Tony Street, Hassan Tahiri
Series Title: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8405-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8404-1Published: 21 July 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7870-4Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8405-8Published: 15 July 2008
Series ISSN: 2214-9775
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9783
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 390
Topics: History of Science, Epistemology, Logic, History of Philosophy, Arabic, Medieval Philosophy