Sceptical Paths offers a fresh look at key junctions in the history of scepticism. Throughout this collection, key figures are reinterpreted, key arguments are reassessed, lesser-known figures are reintroduced, accepted distinctions are challenged, and new ideas are explored.
The historiography of...
Read More about Sceptical Paths: Enquiry and Doubt from Antiquity to the Present (Studies and Texts in Scepticism #6)The Andalusian Muslim philosopher Averroes (1126-1198) is known for his authoritative commentaries on Aristotle and for his challenging ideas about the relationship between philosophy and religion, and the place of religion in society. Among Jewish authors, he found many admirers and just as many...
Read More about Averroes and Averroism in Medieval Jewish Thought (Maimonides Library for Philosophy and Religion #4)The tension between reason and revelation has occupied Jewish philosophers for centuries, who were committed, on the one hand, to defending Judaism, and, on the other hand, to remaining loyal to philosophical principles.
Maimonides is considered the most prominent Jewish religious philosopher...
Read More about Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism in Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Thought (Studies and Texts in Scepticism #5)To date, scholars have skilfully discussed aspects of Polqar's thought, and yet none of the existing studies offers a comprehensive examination that covers Polqar's thought in its entirety. This book aims to fill this lacuna by tracing and contextualizing both Polqar's Islamic sources (al-Fārābī...
Read More about Isaac Polqar - A Jewish Philosopher or a Philosopher and a Jew?: Philosophy and Religion in Isaac Polqar's ʿezer Ha-DAT and Tesuvat Epiqoros (Jewish Thought #3)