Avicenna believes that God must be understood in the first place as the Necessary Existent
(wâǧib al-wuǧûd). In his various works, he provides different versions of an ingenious …

The concept of minimal self-consciousness or “minimal self” is equivalent to a very basic
form of first-person, pre-reflective self-awareness, which includes bodily self-awareness, and …

Developments in the philosophy of mind over the last 20 years have dramatically changed
the nature of the subject. In this major new introduction, Tim Bayne presents an outstanding …

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring This book provides an introduction to the
most important philosopher of the Islamic world, Ibn Sīnā, often known in English by his …

The flying man thought experiment upon which Avicenna grounds his theory of self-
awareness (al-shu 'ūr al-dhātī) and justifies the argument that the soul is an immaterial …

This is a critical comment on Adamson and Benevich (2018), published in issue 4/2 of the
Journal of the American Philosophical Association. I raise two closely related objections …

The present article explores the views of al-Jāḥiẓ, Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, and Fakhr al-Dīn al-
Rāzī-three pre-modern thinkers of the Islamic world outside the Peripatetic tradition-on the …

This paper refutes the claim that Avicenna's theory of science is empiricist in the robust,
Lockean sense. I argue that his denial of innatism notwithstanding, the theory of formal …

Philosophical fictions inhabit a space of reason removed from the world. This was, at least,
the view implied by the Persian philosopher Abū ʿAlı̄al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn …

Essentialism can be defined as a metaphysical theory according to which things have
essential and accidental properties. In this paper, I will address Avicennian essentialism …