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Maimonides and the sciences
- Title
- Maimonides and the sciences / Edited by Robert S. Cohen and Hillel Levine.
- Publication
- Boston ; Dordrecht : Kluwer, [2000], ©2000.
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- Description
- xv, 251 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "In this book, 11 leading scholars contribute to the understanding of the scientific and philosophical works of Moses Maimonides (1135-1204)."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 211
- Uniform Title
- Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 211.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Preface / Hillel Levine and Robert S. Cohen -- Moses Maimonides / Y. Tzvi Langermann -- Defining Maimonides' Aristotelianism / Alexander Altmann -- Maimonides in Context / Joseph Agassi -- "... With All Your Heart and With All Your Soul ...": The Moral Psychology of the Shemonah Peragim / Daniel H. Frank -- Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed and the Transmission of the Mathematical Tract "On Two Asymptotic Lines" in the Arabic, Latin and Hebrew Traditions / Gad Freudenthal -- Maimonidean Naturalism / L. E. Goodman -- Deus sive Natura - The Metamorphosis of a Dictum from Maimonides to Spinoza / Moshe Idel -- Maimonides' Use of (Aristotelian) Dialectic / Joel L. Kraemer -- Maimonides' Repudiation of Astrology / Y. Tzvi Langermann -- Al-Sijzi: A Mathematical and Philosophical Commentary on Proposition II-14 in Apollonius' Conic Sections / Roshdi Rashed -- Maimonides on Language and the Science of Language / Joseph Stern --
- Aspects of Maimonides' Epistemology: Hal and Science / Isadore Twersky.
- ISBN
- 0792360532
- OCLC
- ocm45482344
- SCSB-4050620
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries