Averroes' physics :
Glasner, Ruth.
Averroes' physics : a turning point in medieval natural philosophy / Ruth Glasner. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - ix, 229 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [176]-194) and indexes.
Introduction : science through exegesis -- The complexity of Averroes' writing -- Description of the corpus -- The short commentary -- The middle commentary -- The long commentary -- The Questions in physics -- The order of writing -- The changing cultural contexts -- Versions and revisions -- The short commentary -- The middle commentary -- The long commentary -- The late stratum of the long commentary -- The formal introduction -- The uses of syllogism -- The turning to Alexander -- Averroes' new physics -- The turning point of Physics VIII : the breakdown of determinism -- The challenge of indeterminism -- Conflicting messages in Aristotle -- The story of the middle commentary -- The riddle of the long commentary -- The turning point of Physics VI : the breakdown of motion -- Introduction : The various concepts of motion in Aristotle's Physics -- Aristotle's divisibility argument : a crack in the interval model of motion (Physics VI.4) -- Physics V reinterpreted : from homogeneity to heterogeneity -- Physics VI reinterpreted : from a continuous interval to a contiguous chain -- Physics III reintepreted : from dimensional entity to boundary entity -- When did the turning point occur? -- The turning point of Physics VII : the breakdown of physical body -- Can physical body be a true homoeomer? -- Aristotle's moving-agent argument (physics VII.1) -- Alexander vs. Galen on the meaning of essentiality -- Averroes' notion of first-moved part -- Averroes' 'Aristotelian' atomism -- The 'divorce' between mathematics and physics -- When did the turning point occur?
9780199567737 0199567735 (alk. paper)
2009001721
GBA928313 bnb
014932496 Uk
Averroës, 1126-1198.
Aristotle. Physics.
Physics--Philosophy--History--To 1500.
Philosophy, Medieval.
Science, Medieval.
QC7 / .G65 2009
530.01
Averroes' physics : a turning point in medieval natural philosophy / Ruth Glasner. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - ix, 229 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [176]-194) and indexes.
Introduction : science through exegesis -- The complexity of Averroes' writing -- Description of the corpus -- The short commentary -- The middle commentary -- The long commentary -- The Questions in physics -- The order of writing -- The changing cultural contexts -- Versions and revisions -- The short commentary -- The middle commentary -- The long commentary -- The late stratum of the long commentary -- The formal introduction -- The uses of syllogism -- The turning to Alexander -- Averroes' new physics -- The turning point of Physics VIII : the breakdown of determinism -- The challenge of indeterminism -- Conflicting messages in Aristotle -- The story of the middle commentary -- The riddle of the long commentary -- The turning point of Physics VI : the breakdown of motion -- Introduction : The various concepts of motion in Aristotle's Physics -- Aristotle's divisibility argument : a crack in the interval model of motion (Physics VI.4) -- Physics V reinterpreted : from homogeneity to heterogeneity -- Physics VI reinterpreted : from a continuous interval to a contiguous chain -- Physics III reintepreted : from dimensional entity to boundary entity -- When did the turning point occur? -- The turning point of Physics VII : the breakdown of physical body -- Can physical body be a true homoeomer? -- Aristotle's moving-agent argument (physics VII.1) -- Alexander vs. Galen on the meaning of essentiality -- Averroes' notion of first-moved part -- Averroes' 'Aristotelian' atomism -- The 'divorce' between mathematics and physics -- When did the turning point occur?
9780199567737 0199567735 (alk. paper)
2009001721
GBA928313 bnb
014932496 Uk
Averroës, 1126-1198.
Aristotle. Physics.
Physics--Philosophy--History--To 1500.
Philosophy, Medieval.
Science, Medieval.
QC7 / .G65 2009
530.01