Event Description
The University of Jyväskylä (Finland) will host a two-day online conference entitled “Theory of Science and the Sciences in the Post-Avicennian Period.”
Monday, March 29
Hannah C. Erlwein (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) – Analogy and Scientific Reasoning in Post-Avicennian Kalām
Michael Noble (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität) – The Role of Astrology in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Scientific Soteriology
Dimitri Gutas (Yale) – Parallel Scientific Epistemologies after Avicenna: Remarks on the How, Why, and Whither
Tuesday, March 30
Matthew Melvin-Koushki (University of South Carolina) – Panpsychism and Mathematical Humanism in Arabic and Persian Classifications of the Sciences
Nahyan Fancy (DePauw University) – What Kind of ʿIlm is Medicine? Reflections of Canon and Epitome Commentators on Avicenna’s Definition of Medicine
Jane Murphy (Colorado College) – Al-‘Ulūm Al-Gharība: Mapping the Sciences in Al-Jabartī
Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 March 2021, 16:30–20:00 EEST
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