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The Marriage of Philology and Scepticism: Uncertainty and Conjecture in Early Modern Scholarship and Thought

edited by Gian Mario Cao et. al

11 November 2019

This volume, containing revised and expanded versions of eight papers originally presented at the workshop The Marriage of Philology and Scepticism: Uncertainty and Conjecture in Early Modern Scholarship and Thought held at the Warburg Institute in June 2012, addresses the question of uncertainty in early modern scholarship and thought. The eight papers confront an array of problems, texts, scholars and intellectual contexts, from introductory assessments of the nature of Greek scepticism, particularly in its relation to ancient grammar and medieval thought, to in-depth analyses of the semantic family of uncertainty, as well as of the notion of divination; from case studies of the textual transmission, and relevant editorial...

Philosophy and Medicine in the Formative Period of Islam

Edited by Peter Adamson and Peter Pormann

26 January 2018

Warburg Institute Colloquia

Warburg Institute

Many of the leading philosophers in the Islamic world were doctors, yielding extensive links between philosophy and medicine. The twelve papers in this volume explore these links, focusing on the classical or formative period (up to the eleventh century AD). One central theme is the Arabic reception of Greek figures who worked on medicine or medical topics, including Hippocrates, Aristotle and Galen. Several of the luminaries of philosophy in the early Islamic world are also studied, including Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, al-Fārābī, and Avicenna. Conversely, the volume also includes research on the use of philosophical ideas in medical authors, including ʿAlī ibn Riḍwān. Attention is also given to the connections between medicine and Islamic...

Vernacular Aristotelianism in Italy from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century

Edited by Luca Bianchi et. al

1 December 2016

Warburg Institute Colloquia

Warburg Institute

This volume is based on an international colloquium held at the Warburg Institute, London, on 21–2 June 2013, and entitled ‘Philosophy and Knowledge in the Renaissance: Interpreting Aristotle in the Vernacular’. It situates and explores vernacular Aristotelianism in a broad chronological context, with a geographical focus on Italy. The disciplines covered include political thought, ethics, poetics, rhetoric, logic, natural philosophy, cosmology, meteorology and metaphysics; and among the genres considered are translations, popularizing commentaries, dialogues and works targeted at women. The wide-ranging and rich material presented in the volume is intended to stimulate scholars to develop this promising area of research still further...

Communicating Observations in Early Modern Letters (1500-1675): Epistolography and Epistemology in the Age of the Scientific Revolution

Edited by Dirk Miert

1 November 2013

Warburg Institute Colloquia

Warburg Institute

The case studies in this volume juxtapose instances of knowledge exchange across a variety of fields usually studied in isolation: anthropology, medicine, botany, epigraphy, astronomy, geography, philosophy and chronology. In their letters, scientists and scholars tried to come to grips with the often unclear epistemological status of an ‘observation’, a term which covered a wide semantic field, ranging from acts of perceiving to generalized remarks on knowledge. Observations were associated with descriptions, transcriptions, copies, drawings, casts and coordinates, and they frequently took into account the natural, material, linguistic, historical, religious and social contexts. Early modern scholars were well aware of the...

Medieval Arabic Thought: Essays in Honour of Fritz Zimmermann

Edited by Rotraud Hansberger et. al

25 June 2012

Warburg Institute Studies & Texts

Warburg Institute

CONTENTS

Preface
Galen and al-Rāzī on time / Peter Adamson
The Ḥikam or aphorisms of al-Ghazālī: some examples / M. Afifi al-Akiti
Some Syriac pseudo-platonic curiosities / Sebastian Brock
Al-Jāḥiẓ on Aṣḥāb al-Jahālāt and the Jahmiyya / Patricia Crone
Jawhar and Dhāt in some medieval Arabic philosophers (or, on 'Dhis and Dhat') / Julian Faultless
Le scepticisme et sa réfutation selon al-Malāḥimī / Charles Genequand
Mediating the medium: the Arabic Plotinus on vision / Rotraud Hansberger
Shīʹī views of the death of the Prophet Muḥammad / Etan Kohlberg
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī's exposition of mayl / Y. Tzvi Langermann
ʻĪsā ibn ʻUmayr's Ibāḍī theology and...

In the Age of Averroes: Arabic Philosophy in the Sixth/Twelfth Century

Edited by Peter Adamson

1 April 2011

Warburg Institute Colloquia

Warburg Institute

Much as a previous volume published by the Warburg explored the full range of philosophical developments in the 10th century CE, so this collection of 13 papers by leading scholars looks at philosophical literature of the 12th century. Several contributors discuss the most famous thinker of the period, the great commentator Averroes. But the volume casts a wide net, taking in theologians, “philosophical mystics”, and scientists as well as philosophers, and Jewish philosophy as well as Islamic thought. Apart from Averroes, figures emphasized in the volume include al-Ghazali, Ibn Tufayl, ‘Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Abu l-Barakat al-Baghdadi and Suhrawardi.

Codices Boethiani: Portugal and Spain v. 4

A Conspectus of Manuscripts of the Works of Boethius

Edited by Margaret T. Gibson et. al

1 March 2010

Warburg Institute Surveys & Texts

Warburg Institute

The number of Boethian manuscripts in the Iberian Peninsula is modest compared with those in the British Isles and Italy, partly, perhaps, because of the Arab domination there; the oldest manuscripts come from Ripoll in Catalonia, which was always under Christian control. The Portuguese manuscripts contain five Boethian items, the Spanish, 153, of which the De Consolatione Philosophiae occurs most often. Some of these manuscripts are of exceptional quality, and many of them include extensive glosses.

In the Age of Al-Farabi: Arabic Philosophy in the Fourth/Tenth Century

Arabic Philosophy in the Fourth/tenth Century

Peter Adamson

1 October 2008

Warburg Institute Colloquia

Warburg Institute

The papers in this volume were given at a conference held at the Warburg Institute in 2006 to consider the philosophy of al-Farabi alongside other intellectual developments of his time together with a wide range of other figures and traditions from the period. The volume initially focuses on the group of Peripatetics working in Baghdad with al-Farabi’s teacher Abu Bishr Matta and his student Yahya ibn 'Adi who worked in the Aristotelian tradition. Other papers look at thinkers working in the Neoplatonic tradition transmitted by al-Kindi’s circle, such as al-'Amiri, Ibn Farighun and al-Isfizari. The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity provide compelling evidence of the fusion of Neoplatonism and Greek science with...

Classical Arabic Philosophy

Sources and Reception

Edited by Peter Adamson and volume editor Carmela Baffioni et. al

1 August 2007

Warburg Institute Colloquia

Warburg Institute

The nine papers collected here explore a broad range of sources for texts from the classical period of Arabic philosophy, and a broad range of influence exerted by these texts. By the 'classical period' is meant that part of the Arabic philosophical tradition normally included in the canon of 'medieval' philosophy. It begins in the ninth century, which is when the impact of Greek philosophical and scientific works began to be felt, thanks to their translation under the 'Abbasid caliphs, and ends in the twelfth century. This volume focuses on the influences felt by, and exerted by, the four main philosophers of this period: al-Kindi, al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes. But the historical range covered extends well past...