This is the second in a series of sourcebooks charting the reception of Avicenna (Ibn Sn, d.1037) in the Islamic East (from Syria to central Asia) in the 12th-13th centuries CE. Moving on from the metaphysical and theological concerns covered in the first book, this volume looks at issues in logic and epistemology in the reception of Avicennas thought. Across dozens of authors and hundreds of passages, the translated material covers a wide range of topics including the subject matter of logic, the nature of knowledge and self-knowledge, questions in philosophy of language and syllogistic theory, and paradoxes.
Peter Adamson, Ph.D. (2000), University of Notre Dame, is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich. He has published monographs on the philosophers al-Kind and al-Rz and edited many books, including Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Fedor Benevich, Ph.D. (2016), LMU Munich, is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Essentialität und Notwendigkeit: Avicenna und die Aristotelische Tradition (Brill 2018) as well as of multiple articles and chapters on Avicenna, post-Avicennan Islamic philosophy, and kalm.
Dustin Klinger Ph.D., Harvard University, is the author of Being Another Way: The Copula and Arabic Philosophy of Language, 9001500(University of California Press, 2024). Currently he is a British Academy International Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Previously, he held an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Munich
