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Averroes' Physics: A Turning Point in Medieval Natural Philosophy
2009, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents
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
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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 toboundary entity
When did the turning point occur?
The turning point of Physics III : 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?
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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