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Some Optional Additional Literature

Abbreviations:

SEP = Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

CCAP = The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, P. Adamson and R.C. Taylor, eds.

CAP = Classical Arabic Philosophy: an Anthology of Sources, J. McGinnis & D. B. Reisman, tr, (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2007)

CHMP = The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, R. Pasnau, ed. (New York & Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010)

EMP = Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy 500 -1500, H. Lagerlund, ed. (Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer, 2011) Available in the Reference area at the MU library.

OHMP = Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy, John Marenbon, ed. (Oxford: OUP, 2012)

Past Masters Database = Marquette University subscription to Past Masters available to MU students through Marqcat.

MU Ares = Marquette University Ares Reserve for MU students only.

General Works

Herbert A. Davidson, Alfarabi, Avicenna, & Averroes, on Intellect (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).

Dimitri Gutas, Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition (Leiden: Brill, 1988)

James A. Weisheipl, Thomas D’Aquino (Washington, D.C.: CUA Press 1974)

J.-P. Torrell, Saint Thomas Aquinas, v. 1, The Person and His Work (Washington, D.C.: CUA Press, 1996)

Class #1 (30 August 2012) Introduction

CCAP:  ch. 18, “Arabic into Latin: the reception of Arabic philosophy into Western Europe,” C. Burnett

OHMP: I.1. “The Late Ancient Background to Medieval Philosophy,” J. Marenbon; I.2. “Greek Philosophy,” B. Bydén & K. Ierodiakonou

SEP: Victor Caston, “Intentionality in Ancient Philosophy”

CHMP: I.1. Origin in Baghdad, Dimitri Gutas;  I.2. The emergence of medival Latin philosophy, J. Marenbon;

Class #2 (6 September 2012) Greek background; Early Arabic translations and thought

OHMP: I.3, “Arabic Philosophy and Theology before Avicenna”

CCAP: ch. 2, D’Ancona, “Greek into Arabic: Neoplatonism in translation;” ch. 3, Adamson, “Al-Kindi and the reception of Greek philosophy.”

SEP: “Commentators on Aristotle,” Andrea Falcon;

Dorothea Frede, “Alexander of Aphrodisias,” Dorothea Frede;  Peter Adamson, “Theology of Aristotle,” Peter Adamson, “al-Kindi,”  

CHMP: v.2, Appendix B: Medieval translations

Class #3 (13 September 2012) al-Farabi

SEP: “Arabic and Islamic Psychology and Philosophy of Mind,” Alfred L. Ivry;  “Arabic and Islamic Metaphysics,” Amos Bertolacci

EMP: Vallat, Philippe, “al-Farabi, Abu Nasr,” 346-352.

OHMP: I.3, “Arabic Philosophy and Theology before Avicenna,” Peter Adamson

CHMP: IV Soul and knowledge

Class #4 (20 September 2012) Avicenna

CCAP: ch. 6, “Avicenna and the Avicennian Tradition,” Robert Wisnovsky

OHMP: I.4, “Avicenna and Afterwards,” Nadja Germann

EMP: N. Germann, “Ibn Sīnā, Abū ‘Ali (Avicenna),” 515-522.

EMP: J. Janssens, “Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), Latin Translations of,” 522-527.

Dimitri Gutas. “Intuition and thinking. The evolving structure of Avicenna's epistemology,” in Aspects of Avicenna, ed. Robert Wisnovsky, (Princeton, NJ: Wiener, 2001) 1-38.

Dag Hasse, “Avicenna on Abstraction,” in, ed. Robert Wisnovsky,

(Princeton, NJ: Wiener, 2001) 39-72.

Jon McGinnis, Avicenna (Oxford & NY: OU Press, 2010)  ch. 4-5 on pyschology

Robert Wisnovsky, Avicenna's metaphysics in context, Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2003

Avicenna’s Psychology. An English Translation of Kitāb al-Najāt, Book II, chapter VI, by F. Rahman (London: Oxford University Press 1952; rpt. 1981).

Deborah Black, “Estimation (wahm) in Avicenna: The Logical and Psychologial Dimentions,” Dialogue 32 (1993) 219-258.

Deborah Black, “Imagination and Estimation: Arabic Paradigms and Western Transformations,” Topoi 19 (2000) 161-87.

Class #5 (27 September 2012) Averroes

CCAP: ch. 9 “Averroes: Religious Dialectic and Aristotelian Philosophical Thought,” R. Taylor

OHMP: I.5 “Averroes and Philosophy in Islamic Spain,” Matteo Di Giovanni

EMP: “Ibn Rushd, Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Hafid (Averroes),” Taneli Kukkonen; “Ibn Rushd (Averroes), Latin Translations of,” Marc Geoffroy

R. C. Taylor, Averroes (Ibn Rushd) of Cordoba. Long Commentary on the De Anima of Aristotle, introduction.

R. C. Taylor, “Intelligibles in act in Averroes,” in Averroès et les averroïsmes juif et latin. Actes du colloque tenu à Paris, 16-18 juin 2005, ed. J.-B. Brenet, (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007) 111-140.

Deborah L. Black, “Models of the Mind: Metaphysical Presuppositions of the Averroist and Thomistic Accounts of Intellection,” Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale 15 (2004) 319–52.

Class # 6 (4 October) Aquinas and his Teacher, Albert

Lawrence Dewan, O.P., “St. Albert, St. Thomas and Knowledge,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 70 (1996) 121-135.

SEP: “Albert the Great,” Markus Führer

EMP: “Albert the Great,” Julie Brumberg-Chaumont; “Thomas Aquinas,” Alexander W. Hall

A. de Libera, Métaphysique et Noétique, Albert le Grand (Paris: Vrin, 2005), ch. VI Psychologie philosophique et théorie de l’intellect, pp. 265-328.

OHMP: ch. 9 Latin Philosophy, 1200-1350, Russell Friedman; ch. 8 Latin Philosophy to 1200, Christophe Erismann;  ch. 22 Mind and Hylomorphism, Robert Pasnau

Richard C. Taylor, “Albert the Great’s Account of Human Knowledge in his De homine:  A Concoction Formed From the Writings of Avicenna and Averroes” 5 June 2012. Click HERE.

Class #7 (11 October) Aquinas’s earliest philosophical treatments of soul and intellect in the Commentary on the Sentences

B. Carlos Bazán, “The Creation of the Soul According to Thomas Aquinas,” Philosophy and Theology in the Long Middle Ages: A Tribute to Stephen F. Brown, ed. Kent Emery, Jr., Russell Friedman & Andreas Speer (Leiden: Brill, 2011) 515-569.

NOTE: SCG 3.43: “That we cannot in this life understand separate substances in the way that Averroes claimed.” See http://josephkenny.joyeurs.com/CDtexts/ContraGentiles3a.htm#43

Edward P. Mahoney, “Aquinas’s Critique of Averroes’ Doctrine of the Unity of the Intellect,” in Thomas Aquinas and His Legacy, David M. Gallagher, ed. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1994) 83-106.

18. R.C. Taylor, “Averroes’ Epistemology and Its Critique by Aquinas,” Thomistic Papers VII. Medieval Masters: Essays in Memory of Msgr. E.A. Synan, R.E. Houser, ed. (Houston 1999) pp. 147-177. 
    

Class #8 (18 October) Confrontation with the Arabic Tradition: Summa contra gentiles. (The union of soul and body; the critique of the philosophers on intellectual understanding and the further development of the doctrine of intellect.)

Deborah L. Black, “Consciousness and Self-Knowledge in Aquinas’s Critique of Averroes’s Psychology,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 31 (1993) 349-385.

18. R.C. Taylor, “Intellect as Intrinsic Formal Cause in the Soul according to Aquinas and Averroes,” in The Afterlife of the Platonic Soul. Reflections on Platonic Psychology in the Monotheistic Religions, Maha El-Kaisy Friemuth and John M. Dillon, ed. (Leiden: Brill, 2009), pp. 187-220.
    

Lloyd P. Gerson, “The Unity of Intellect in Aristotle’s De Anima,” Phronesis 49 (2004) 348-373.

Class #9

SEP: “Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy”

18. R.C. Taylor, “Intellect as Intrinsic Formal Cause in the Soul according to Aquinas and Averroes,” in The Afterlife of the Platonic Soul. Reflections on Platonic Psychology in the Monotheistic Religions, Maha El-Kaisy Friemuth and John M. Dillon, ed. (Leiden: Brill, 2009), pp. 187-220.
    

Class #10

Bernardo Carlos Bazán, “On Angels and Human Beings: Did Thomas Succeed in Demonstrating the Existence of Angels?,” Archives d’histoire doctrinale et litteraire du moyen age 77 (2010) 47-85.

Class #11 & Class #12:

For these classes I suggest you read some interesting articles on the nature of the separated soul, that is, the ontology of the soul after death. See

Joseph Owens, “Aquinas on the Inseparability of Soul from Existence,” The New Scholasticism 61 (1987) 249-270.

Anton Pegis, “The Separated Soul and its Nature in St. Thomas,” in St. Thomas Aquinas 1274-1974 Commemorative Studies, ed. Armand Maurer Toronto: PIMS, 1974, 131-158.

John Wippel, “Thomas Aquinas on the Separated Soul’s Natural Knowledge,” in Thomas Aquinas: Approaches to Truth. The Aquinas Lectures at Maynooth, 1996-2001, 114-140.

I also suggest you read B. Carls Bazán, “Conceptions on the Agent Intellect and the Limits of Metaphysics,” in Nach der Verurteilung von 1277, ed. Aertsen et al. Berlin & New York; Walter de Gruyter, 2011, 178-210.

Class #13

Forthcoming

Class #14

Forthcoming