عنوان

Averroes' Physics: A Turning Point In Medieval Natural Philosophy

Number

2202396

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

eng

Title Proper

Averroes' Physics: A Turning Point In Medieval Natural Philosophy

First Statement of Responsibility

\ Ruth Glasner

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Oxford, New York

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

: Oxford University Press

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

, 2009.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

ix, 229 p.

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Code E.Book: 10783

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Bibliography.

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Introduction : science through exegesis -- The complexity of Averroes' writing -- Description of the corpus -- The short commentary -- The middle commentary -- The long commentary -- The Questions in physics -- The order of writing -- The changing cultural contexts -- Versions and revisions -- The short commentary -- The middle commentary -- The long commentary -- The late stratum of the long commentary -- The formal introduction -- The uses of syllogism -- The turning to Alexander -- Averroes' new physics -- The turning point of Physics VIII : the breakdown of determinism -- The challenge of indeterminism -- Conflicting messages in Aristotle -- The story of the middle commentary -- The riddle of the long commentary -- The turning point of Physics VI : the breakdown of motion -- Introduction : The various concepts of motion in Aristotle's Physics -- Aristotle's divisibility argument : a crack in the interval model of motion (Physics VI.4) -- Physics V reinterpreted : from homogeneity to heterogeneity -- Physics VI reinterpreted : from a continuous interval to a contiguous chain -- Physics III reintepreted : from dimensional entity to boundary entity -- When did the turning point occur? -- The turning point of Physics VII : the breakdown of physical body -- Can physical body be a true homoeomer? -- Aristotle's moving-agent argument (physics VII.1) -- Alexander vs. Galen on the meaning of essentiality -- Averroes' notion of first-moved part -- Averroes' 'Aristotelian' atomism -- The 'divorce' between mathematics and physics -- When did the turning point occur?

اب‍ن‌ رش‍د، م‍ح‍م‍د ب‍ن‌ اح‍م‍د، ۵۲۰ - ۵۹۵ق‌

Glasner, Ruth.