Title Averroës' physics : a turning point in medieval natural philosophy / Ruth Glasner

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 229 pages) Series Oxford scholarship online Oxford scholarship online. Oxford scholarship online. Philosophy module 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 -- Versions and revisions -- 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 to boundary entity -- When did the turning point occur? -- The turning point of Physics VII : 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? Summary Ruth Glasner presents an illuminating reappraisal of Averroes' physics. She reveals that Averroes changed his interpretation of the basic notions of physics - the structure of corporeal reality and the definition of motion - more than once Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-194) and indexes Notes Print version record Subject Averroës, 1126-1198 Aristotle. Physics. SUBJECT Averroës, 1126-1198 fast Physics (Aristotle) fast Subject Physics -- Philosophy -- History -- To 1500 Philosophy, Medieval. Science, Medieval. SCIENCE -- Physics -- General. SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General. SCIENCE -- Energy. Philosophy, Medieval Physics -- Philosophy Science, Medieval Atomisme. Aristotelisme. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191570346 0191570346 9780191721472 0191721476

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