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

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Rahman, Shahid (Editor ), Street, Tony (Editor ), Tahiri, Hassan (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edición:1st ed. 2008.
Colección:Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, 11
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.