The Metaphysics of Agency: Avicenna and his Legacy

This dissertation begins with the Islamic philosopher Avicenna, who transforms Aristotle’s conception of the efficient cause in the Metaphysics of his Shifā’. Its first goal is to examine the arguments which constitute Avicenna’s metaphysical account of agency. Its second goal is to examine Schola...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Richardson, Kara
Other Authors: Black, Deborah
Format: Others
Language:en_ca
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/17289