Averroes' physics
Subtitle: a turning point in medieval natural philosophy
By: Ruth Glasner.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199567737
Subjects: Averroës, -- 1126-1198; Aristotle; Physics -- Philosophy -- History -- To 1500; Philosophy, Medieval; Science, Medieval
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : science through exegesis; title: The complexity of Averroes' writing; title: Description of the corpus; title: The short commentary; title: The middle commentary; title: The long commentary; title: The questions in physics; title: The order of writing; title: The changing cultural contexts; title: Versions and revisions; title: The short commentary; title: The middle commentary; title: The long commentary; title: The late stratum of the long commentary; title: The formal introduction; title: The uses of syllogism; title: The turning to alexander; title: Averroes' new physics; title: The turning point of Physics VIII : the breakdown of determinism; title: The challenge of indeterminism; title: Conflicting messages in Aristotle; title: The story of the middle commentary; title: The riddle of the long commentary; title: The turning point of Physics VI : the breakdown of motion; title: Introduction: The various concepts of motion in Aristotle's physics; title: Aristotle's divisibility argument : a crack in the interval model of motion (Physics VI.4); title: Physics V reinterpreted : from homogeneity to heterogeneity; title: Physics VI reinterpreted : from a continuous interval to a contiguous chain; title: Physics III reintepreted : from dimensional entity toboundary entity; title: When did the turning point occur?; title: The turning point of Physics III : the breakdown of physical body; title: Can physical body be a true homoeomer?; title: Aristotle's moving-agent argument (physics VII.1); title: Alexander vs. Galen on the meaning of essentiality; title: Averroes' notion of first-moved part; title: Averroes' Aristotelian atomism; title: The divorce between mathematics and physics; title: When did the turning point occur?