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“A discipline or part of a discipline”: logic on the border of metaphysics and psychology in Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ

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Avicenna’s ground-breaking view of logic as both a tool for other sciences and a science in its own right has already attracted scholars’ attention and has been studied in several different respects. The present paper aims to address a specific issue entailed by considering logic as a science in its own right: that is, assessing the relation in which logic as a science stands to the other sciences, and particularly to metaphysics and psychology. The inquiry will focus on a fundamental, yet tricky, passage of chapter I.4 of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Madḫal, the opening work of his most comprehensive philosophical summa, the Kitāb al-Šifāʾ (Book of Healing). Due to the obscurity of some of Avicenna’s references, chapter I.4 “on the subject-matter of logic” has stimulated numerous attempts at interpretation from the Middle Ages to today. In this paper, I will attempt to provide a new reading of the chapter in light of Avicenna’s definition of the epistemological status of science in Burhān II.7.
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Silvia Di Vincenzo. “A discipline or part of a discipline”: logic on the border of metaphysics and psychology in Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2022, pp.1-20. ⟨10.1080/09608788.2022.2123779⟩. ⟨hal-04363081⟩
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