Maimonides and the sciences
By: edited by Robert S. Cohen and Hillel Levine.
Contributors: Cohen, R. S.; Levine, Hillel.
Series: Boston studies in the philosophy of science ;; v. 211
Publisher: Kluwer Academic
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204; Science, Medieval
Description: "In this book, 11 leading scholars contribute to the understanding of the scientific and philosophical works of Moses Maimonides (1135-1204)."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Moses Maimonides -- Y. Tzvi Langermann; title: Defining Maimonides' Aristotelianism -- Alexander Altmann; title: Maimonides in context -- Joseph Agassi; title: "With all your heart and with all your soul" -- Daniel H. Frank; title: Maimonides' guide of the perplexed and the transmission of the mathematical tract "on two asymptotic lines" in the Arabic, Latin and Hebrew traditions -- Gad Freudenthal; title: Maimonidean naturalism -- L.E. Goodman; title: Deus sive natura -- Moshe Idel; title: Maimonides' use of (Aristotelian) dialectic -- Joel L. Kraemer; title: Maimonides' repudiation of astrology -- Y. Tzvi Langermann; title: Al-Sijzi -- Roshdi Rashed; title: Maimonides on language and the science of language -- Joseph Stern; title: Aspects of Maimonides' epistemology -- Isadore Twersky.