The Unity of Science in the Arabic Tradition: Science, Logic, Epistemology and their Interactions (Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science)

 This book is the first to reflect the multi-dimensional nature of the interplay between logic, science, philosophy and language in the Arabic tradition. It presents contributions from the world’s leading scholars and historians under the headings ‘Epistemology and Philosophy of Science’ and ‘Logic, Philosophy and Grammar’.

The contents exemplify the liveliness of modern perspectives on the Arabic tradition. It describes new paths for research and understanding not normally raised in the approaches to this subject. It challenges the rigid distinction between Western and Eastern thought and opens the field for a new view on the development of modern science.

Contents
Part I Epistemology and Philosophy of Science Ibn Sīnā’s Philosophy of Mathematics
M. Ardeshir
Avicenna on Self-Awareness and Knowing that One Knows
D.L. Black
A Conceptual Analysis of Early Arabic Algebra
A. Heeffer
Avicenna’s Naturalized Epistemology and Scientific Method
J. McGinnis
The Philosophy of Mathematics
R. Rashed
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
H. Tahiri
Part II Logic Philosophy and Grammar
The Jiha/Tropos-Mādda/Hūlē Distinction in Arabic Logic and its Significance for Avicenna’s Modals
A.Q. Ahmed
Islamic Logic?
A. Bäck
Logical Fragments in Ibn Khaldūn’s Muqaddimah
H.P. van Ditmarsch
Avicenna on the Quantification of the Predicate (with an Appendix on [Ibn Zur'a])
A. Hasnawi
Name (ism), Derived Name (ism mushtaqq) and Description (wasf) in Arabic Grammar, Muslim Dialectical Theology and Arabic Logic
C. Schöck
Logic and Metaphysics in Avicenna’s Modal Syllogistic
P. Thom
Index of Names
Index of Subjects