While pre-Avicennan philosophy was largely commentary on Aristotle, post-Avicennan philosophy often took Avicenna himself to be the central figure of philosophy with whom one had to engage, either in agreement or disagreement. The post Newsletter: August 2025 appeared first on David Egan Philosophy.| David Egan Philosophy
Unless you follow the field closely, you probably aren’t aware of a major shift in scholarship on philosophy in the Islamic world. Since the turn of the century, experts on this topic have been increasingly interested in what happened after what one might call the “classical” or “formative” period. By this I mean, roughly, the…| Blog of the APA