Volume 10 of the Routledge History of Philosophy presents a historical survey of the central topics in twentieth century Anglo-American philosophy. It chronicles what has been termed the 'linguistic turn' in analytic philosophy and traces the influence the study of language has had on the main problems of philosophy. Each chapter contains an extensive bibliography of the major writings in the field. All the essays present their large and complex topics in a clear and well organised way. At the end, the reader finds a helpful Chronology of the major political, scientific and philosophical events in the Twentieth Century and an extensive Glossary of technical terms.
INTRODUCTORY REMARK Aesthetics in the English-speaking world during the
twentieth century, with regard to its central problems, falls into three relatively
distinct periods: the psychological, the analytic and the contextual. Until the
1950s, philosophers attempted to resolve aesthetics' central ... During the 1950s
and 1960s aesthetics was impacted by the two strains of analytic philosophy.
One strain is of a formal and stipulative sort. The principal figures in this tradition,
Monroe ...
This publication of al-Kind 's "Optics" and "Catoptrics" provides "editio princeps" and the first translation of three books including the "Rectification of Euclid's Optics" hitherto unknown. In this book, the reader will find genuine and new information about Greek and Arabic optics and catoptics.
DEUXIÈME PARTIE TEXTES ET TRADUCTIONS Introduction L'œuvre optique et
catoptrique d'al-Kindi, désormais plus substantielle qu'on le croyait, une fois
découverts la Rectification et les deux fragments - sur les grandeurs immergées
dans l'eau et sur le miroir sphérique concave -, et restitué son traité sur les
rayons solaires, ne se réduit cependant pas à ces écrits, auxquels on doit ajouter
le De aspectibus. Nous avons en effet montré, grâce à ces mêmes fragments, d'
ailleurs, ...
THE NAME OF Abu Yusuf Yacqub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi, "the philosopher of the
Arabs", is well known to students of Islamic culture, and recent years have seen a
number of studies devoted to him. We need not, therefore, rehearse in detail the
facts of al-Kindl's life and accomplishments, presented originally by Ibn al-Nadim
and others.1 It is enough to say that al-Kindi was born probably in Kufah toward
the end of the eighth Christian century or beginning of the ninth, during the tenure
of ...
Al-Kindī, honoured as the 'philosopher of the Arabs', was the first philosopher of Islam. His pioneer philosophical writings engage with ideas that became available through the Graeco-Arabic translation movement. This volume makes his entire philosophical output-some two dozen works-available in English, most of them for the first time. An overall introduction, introductions to each work and extensive notes explain al-Kindī's ideas, sources, and influence.
In his day, al-Kindi (ca. 805-870) was the only philosopher of pure Arab descent, and became known as “the philosopher of the Arabs.” He was one of the first Arab scholars interested in a scientific rather than theological viewpoint, and played a key role in bringing Greek learning into the orbit of Islam. al-Kindi wrote over three hundred fifty treatises, for the most part short studies on special topics in science and philosophy. Nicholas Rescher assembles this annotated bibliography, listing of over three hundred items, to assist students and scholars through the maze of publications related to al-Kindi.
Nicholas Rescher assembles this annotated bibliography, listing of over three hundred items, to assist students and scholars through the maze of publications related to al-Kindi.
