Being Another Way
In Being Another Way, Dustin Klinger recounts the history of how medieval Arabic philosophers in the Islamic East grappled with the logical role of the copula “to be,” an ambiguity that has bedeviled Western philosophy from Parmenides to the analytic philosophers of today. Working from within a lang...
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| description | In Being Another Way, Dustin Klinger recounts the history of how medieval Arabic philosophers in the Islamic East grappled with the logical role of the copula “to be,” an ambiguity that has bedeviled Western philosophy from Parmenides to the analytic philosophers of today. Working from within a language that has no copula, a group of increasingly independent Arabic philosophers began to critically investigate the semantic role that Aristotle, for many centuries their philosophical authority, invested in the copula as the basis of his logic. Drawing on extensive manuscript research, Klinger breaks through the thicket of unstudied philosophical works to demonstrate the creativity of postclassical Islamic scholarship as it explored the consequences of its intellectual break with the past. Against the still widespread view that intellectual ferment all but disappeared during the period, he shows how these intellectuals over the centuries developed and refined a sophisticated philosophy of language that speaks to core concerns of contemporary linguistics and philosophy.
“Dustin Klinger’s study of medieval Arabic and Islamic views of the copula is remarkable on a number of counts: its historical range, the number of sources it incorporates, and its engagement with modern philosophical discussions of the analysis of propositions. It is a significant contribution to the field of Arabic-Islamic philosophy and logic.” — KHALED EL-ROUAYHEB, Jewett Professor of Arabic at Harvard University
“In this wide-ranging study, Klinger looks at an issue that was pivotal in both ancient Greek and medieval Arabic philosophy. An important contribution to the exciting fields of logic and the philosophy of language in the Islamic world.” PETER ADAMSON, Professor of Philosophy at LMU Munich |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1463822024-10-23T04:10:20Z Being Another Way Klinger, Dustin D. Language; Arabic philosophy; history thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics In Being Another Way, Dustin Klinger recounts the history of how medieval Arabic philosophers in the Islamic East grappled with the logical role of the copula “to be,” an ambiguity that has bedeviled Western philosophy from Parmenides to the analytic philosophers of today. Working from within a language that has no copula, a group of increasingly independent Arabic philosophers began to critically investigate the semantic role that Aristotle, for many centuries their philosophical authority, invested in the copula as the basis of his logic. Drawing on extensive manuscript research, Klinger breaks through the thicket of unstudied philosophical works to demonstrate the creativity of postclassical Islamic scholarship as it explored the consequences of its intellectual break with the past. Against the still widespread view that intellectual ferment all but disappeared during the period, he shows how these intellectuals over the centuries developed and refined a sophisticated philosophy of language that speaks to core concerns of contemporary linguistics and philosophy. “Dustin Klinger’s study of medieval Arabic and Islamic views of the copula is remarkable on a number of counts: its historical range, the number of sources it incorporates, and its engagement with modern philosophical discussions of the analysis of propositions. It is a significant contribution to the field of Arabic-Islamic philosophy and logic.” — KHALED EL-ROUAYHEB, Jewett Professor of Arabic at Harvard University “In this wide-ranging study, Klinger looks at an issue that was pivotal in both ancient Greek and medieval Arabic philosophy. An important contribution to the exciting fields of logic and the philosophy of language in the Islamic world.” PETER ADAMSON, Professor of Philosophy at LMU Munich 2024-10-23T04:10:18Z 2024-10-23T04:10:18Z 2024-10-22T13:38:19Z 2024 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93909 9780520401631 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/146382 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/93909/1/being-another-way.pdf University of California Press 10.1525/luminos.201 10.1525/luminos.201 19856893-4bf2-4e3e-9137-c7692d64e4c1 9780520401631 296 Oakland open access |
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