Date: 12-Aug-2008 From: Jasper de Vaal <jasper.devaalspringer.com> Subject: The Unity of Science in the Arabic Tradition: Rahman, Street, Tahiri (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: The Unity of Science in the Arabic Tradition
Subtitle: Science, Logic, Epistemology and their Interactions
Series Title: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
Published: 2008
Publisher: Springer
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Editor: Shahid Rahman
Editor: Tony Street
Editor: Hassan Tahiri
Hardback: ISBN: 9781402084041 Pages: 490 Price: U.S. $ 249.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9781402084041 Pages: 490 Price: U.K. £ 124.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9781402084041 Pages: 490 Price: Europe EURO 164.95
Abstract:
> The first to reflect the multi-dimensional nature of the interplay beween logic, science, philosophy and language in the Arabic tradition > Contains contributions from the world's leading scholars and historians of science and philosophy > Covers a wide range of topics including philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, the emergence of algebra, scientific controversies on the foundation of astronomy, rhetoric, tropos, modal logic and epistemic logic
This book is the first to reflect the multi-dimensional nature of the interplay between logic, science, philosophy and language in the Arabic tradition. It presents contributions from the world's leading scholars and historians under the headings 'Epistemology and Philosophy of Science' and 'Logic, Philosophy and Grammar'.
The contents exemplify the liveliness of modern perspectives on the Arabic tradition. It describes new paths for research and understanding not normally raised in the approaches to this subject. It challenges the rigid distinction between Western and Eastern thought and opens the field for a new view on the development of modern science.
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