Books written by Peter Adamson

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  Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A history of philosophy without any gaps

  S. Swain, Economy, Family and Society from Rome to Islam: A Critical Edition, English Translation, and Study of Bryson's ... A point also made by M. I. Finley, Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology (London, 1980), 121, R. Bradley, ...

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  Philosophy in the Islamic World: A history of philosophy without any gaps

  Next will come Abraham Ibn Daud, a philosopher whose major work, The Exalted Faith, is an exploration of the question of human freedom. After these two Abrahams, it will make sense to turn to a Moses: Moses Maimonides, that is.

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  Classical Philosophy: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

  There are also logical paradoxes, for instance the barber's paradox: imagine a barber who shaves every man in the village who doesn't shave himself. Does the barber shave himself or not? Or the liar's paradox: if I say, “What I'm now ...

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  Aesthetic Otoplasty: Thomas Procedures in Facial Plastic Surgery

  Fry HJH. Interlocked stresses in human nasal septal cartilage. Br J Plast Surg 19:276, 1966. Nordzell B.Open otoplasty. Plast ReconstrSurg106(7): 1466–72, 2000. Cloutier AM. Correction of outstanding ears. Plast Reconstr Surg28:412, ...

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  Thomas Procedures in Facial Plastic Surgery: Seven Volumes Series

  Thomas Procedures in Facial Plastic Surgery: Seven Volumes Series

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  Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 6

  Palmer , Reading Lucretius , 199 . 9. For Ficino and Scala see A. Brown , The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence ( Cambridge , MA : 2010 ) , ch . 2 ; on Ficino see further S. G. Passanante , The Lucretian Renaissance ...

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  Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A history of philosophy without any gaps

  A major theme of the book is in fact the competition between pagan and Christian philosophy in this period, and the Jewish tradition also appears in the shape of Philo of Alexandria.

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  Medieval Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps

  For more on the question of whether Bonaventure should be considered a “philosopher,” see A. Speer, “Bonaventure and the Question of a Medieval Philosophy,” Medieval Philosophy and Theology 6 (1997), 25–46. . Trans. by Z. Hayes in vol.4 ...

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  Animals: A History

  Donaldson and Kymlicka, Zoopolis. Space prohibits me from considering the ensuing debate in detail here but see Cochrane, “Cosmozoopolis”; Per-Anders, “Animal National Liberation?”; Horta, “Zoopolis, Intervention.

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  Classical Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps

  This is a new kind of history which will bring philosophy to life for all readers, including those coming to the subject for the first time.

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  The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy

  This collection of essays, by some of the leading scholars in Arabic philosophy, provides an introduction to the field by way of chapters devoted to individual thinkers (such as al-Farabi, Avicenna and Averroes) or groups, especially during ...

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  Studies on Early Arabic Philosophy

  This volume collects papers on both the Greek philosophers in their new Arabic guise, and on reactions to the translation movement in the period leading up to Avicenna.

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  Studies on Early Arabic Philosophy

  This volume collects papers on both the Greek philosophers in their new Arabic guise, and on reactions to the translation movement in the period leading up to Avicenna.

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  The Arabic Plotinus: A Philosophical Study of the 'Theology of Aristotle'

  It is referred to by such thinkers as al-Fārābī, in an attempt to demonstrate the agreement between Platonism and Aristotelianism, Avicenna, who wrote a set of comments on the text, and later on thinkers of Safavid Persia including ...

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  Al-Kindi

  This book will be of interest to experts in the field, but it requires no knowledge of Greek or Arabic, and is also aimed at non-experts who are simply interested in one of the greatest of Islamic philosophers.

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  Don't Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

  As we might put it, should we really try to think for ourselves? In addition to suggesting that medieval Muslim thinkers had useful insights about this question, I want to suggest an even more surprising historical thesis.

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  Fabulous Faces: From Motivation to Transformation Through Facial Plastic Surgery

  Is it right for you? How do you find a doctor? What surgeries and procedures are available? What can you expect before, during, and after surgery? The answers to all these and more are revealed in Fabulous Faces.

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  Philosophy in the Islamic World

  The Logical Tradition K. El-Rouayheb, Relational Syllogisms and the History of Arabic Logic, 900–1900 (Leiden, 2010). ... 1: Greek, Indian and Arabic Logic (Amsterdam, 2004). ... Ibn Taymiyya against the Greek Logicians (Oxford, 1993).

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  Philosophy in the Islamic World: A Very Short Introduction

  Drawing on the most recent research in the field, this book challenges the assumption of the cultural decline of philosophy and science in the Islamic world by demonstrating its rich heritage and overlap with other faiths and philosophies.

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  Philosophy in the Islamic World: Volume 1: 8th-10th Century

  This is the English version of the relevant volume of the 'Ueberweg', the most authoritative German reference work on the history of philosophy ('Philosophie in der Islamischen Welt Band I: 8.-10. Jahrhundert'. Basel: Schwabe, 2012).