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Contemporary Reflections on Substantial Kind Change in Avicenna
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contemporary metaphysics, and especially neo‐Aristotelian metaphysics, tackles many of the same problems as Avicenna did. One of these problems is the possibility of substantial kind change. For instance, is it possible for an animal to change its species?
Tuomas E. Tahko
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PSR, Modal Collapse, and Open Future in Ibn Sīnā's Philosophy
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It has been contended that the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) implies necessitarianism—that is, the view that everything occurs out of necessity. Discussing a well‐known argument for this claim developed by contemporary metaphysicians, I show that Ibn Sīnā has anticipated a counterpart of this argument, and that is precisely why he is ...
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
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The Agent Intellect as “form for us” and Averroes’s Critique of al-Fârâbî [PDF]
, 2005 This article explicates Averroes\u27s understanding of human knowing and abstraction in this three commentaries on Aristotle\u27s De Anima. While Averroes\u27s views on the nature of the human material intellect changes through the three commentaries ...
Taylor, Richard C.
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Prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections among university female students, Gaza, Palestine [PDF]
, 2019 The intestinal parasites are still endemic among children, women, and men in Gaza Strip. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study of intestinal parasites among young female students of Islamic University of Gaza to report the existence and ...
Abu Qassem, RR +4 more
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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Averroes and the Philosophical Account of Prophecy [PDF]
, 2018 Prophecy is conspicuous by its complete absence from all three of the commentaries on De Anima by Averroes. However, prophecy and philosophical metaphysics are discussed by him in his Commentary on the Parva Naturalia, a work written before his ...
Taylor, Richard C.
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Avicenna's Outsourced Rationalism [PDF]
Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2020 peerReviewed
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THE LABYRINTH OF PHILOSOPHY IN ISLAM [PDF]
, 2010 This paper focuses on the methodological issues related to the obstacles and potential horizons of approaching the philosophical traditions in Islam from the standpoint of comparative studies in philosophy, while also presenting selected case-studies ...
El-Bizri, Nader
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Brain and Behavior, Volume 16, Issue 1, January 2026.An overview of the mechanism of action, clinical trials, and classical findings of KarXT for the management of psychotic symptoms in patients with schizophrenia and alzheimer's disease. ABSTRACT Background Acute psychotic symptoms like delusions and hallucinations are of major concern while treating patients with schizophrenia and alzheimer's psychosis,
Ashir Kanwal +7 more
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Relations Without Polyadic Properties: Albert the Great On the Nature and Ontological Status of Relations [PDF]
, 2001 I think it would be fair to say that, until about 1900, philosophers were generally reluctant to admit the existence of what are nowadays called polyadic properties.1 It is important to recognize, however, that this reluctance on the part of pre ...
Brower, Jeffrey E.
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