Mathematics and the mind [electronic resource] : an introduction into Ibn Sīnā's theory of knowledge / Hassan Tahiri.
2016
B751.Z7
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Title
Mathematics and the mind [electronic resource] : an introduction into Ibn Sīnā's theory of knowledge / Hassan Tahiri.
Author
Tahiri, Hassan, author.
ISBN
9783319252384 (electronic book)
3319252380 (electronic book)
9783319252360
3319252364
3319252380 (electronic book)
9783319252360
3319252364
Published
Cham : Springer, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 76 pages).
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B751.Z7
Dewey Decimal Classification
181.5
Summary
This book examines how epistemology was reinvented by Ibn Sīnā, an influential philosopher-scientist of the classical Islamic world who was known to the West by the Latinised name Avicenna. It explains his theory of knowledge in which intentionality acts as an interaction between the mind and the world. This, in turn, led Ibn Sīnā to distinguish an operation of intentionality specific to the generation of numbers. The author argues that Ibn Sīnā's transformation of philosophy is one of the major stages in the de-hellinisation movement of the Greek heritage that was set off by the advent of the Arabic-Islamic civilisation. Readers first learn about Ibn Sīnā's unprecedented investigation into the concept of the number and his criticism of such Greek thought as Plato's realism, Pythagoreans' empiricism, and Ari stotle's conception of existence. Next, coverage sets out the basics of Ibn Sīnā's theory of knowledge needed for the construction of numbers. It describes how intentionality turns out to be key in showing the ontological dependence of numbers as well as even more critical to their construction. In describing the various mental operations that make mathematical objects intentional entities, Ibn Sīnā developed powerful arguments and subtle analyses to show us the extent our mental life depends on intentionality. This monograph thoroughly explores the epistemic dimension of this concept, which, the author believes, can also explain the actual genesis and evolution of mathematics by the human mind.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 The Reinvention of Knowledge
Chapter 2 Ibn Sīnā and the Reinvention of Epistemology
Chapter 3 Refutation of the Greek Conception of Number
Chapter 4 Ibn Sīnā's Basic Theory of Knowledge: Existence, Intentionality, Memory
Chapter 5 The Logico-Epistemic Construction of Numbers
Chapter 6 Concluding Remarks.
Chapter 2 Ibn Sīnā and the Reinvention of Epistemology
Chapter 3 Refutation of the Greek Conception of Number
Chapter 4 Ibn Sīnā's Basic Theory of Knowledge: Existence, Intentionality, Memory
Chapter 5 The Logico-Epistemic Construction of Numbers
Chapter 6 Concluding Remarks.