Averroes on the Ontology of the Human Soul, 2012
By: Richard C. Taylor
Title Averroes on the Ontology of the Human Soul
Type Article
Language English
Date 2012
Journal The Muslim World
Volume 102
Issue 3–4
Pages 580–596
Categories Ontology, Psychology
Author(s) Richard C. Taylor
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Abstraction in al-Fārābī, 2006
By: Richard C. Taylor
Title Abstraction in al-Fārābī
Type Article
Language English
Date 2006
Journal Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
Volume 80
Pages 151–168
Categories Psychology
Author(s) Richard C. Taylor
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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The Agent Intellect as "form for us" and Averroes's Critique of al-Fārābī, 2005
By: Richard C. Taylor
Title The Agent Intellect as "form for us" and Averroes's Critique of al-Fārābī
Type Article
Language English
Date 2005
Journal Tópicos. Revista de Filosofía
Volume 29
Pages 29–51
Categories Psychology, al-Fārābī
Author(s) Richard C. Taylor
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
This article explicates Averroes's understanding of human knowing and abstraction in this three commentaries on Aristotle's De Anima. While Averroes's views on the nature of the human material intellect changes through the three commentaries until he reaches is famous view of the unity of the material intellect as one for all human beings, his view of the agent intellect as 'form for us' is sustained throughout these works. In his Long Commentary on the De Anima he reveals his dependence on al-Fārābī for this notion and provides a detailed critique of the Farabian notion that the agent intellect is 'form for us' only as agent cause, not as our true formal cause. Although Averroes argues that the agent intellect must somehow be intrinsic to us as our form since humans are per se rational and undertake acts of knowing by will, his view is shown to rest on an equivocal use of the notion of formal cause. The agent intellect cannot be properly our intrinsic formal principle while remaining ontologically separate.

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Averroes' Epistemology and Its Critique by Aquinas, 1999
By: Richard C. Taylor
Title Averroes' Epistemology and Its Critique by Aquinas
Type Article
Language English
Date 1999
Pages 147–177
Categories Aquinas, Psychology
Author(s) Richard C. Taylor
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Averroes on Psychology and the Principles of Metaphysics, 1998
By: Richard C. Taylor
Title Averroes on Psychology and the Principles of Metaphysics
Type Article
Language English
Date 1998
Journal Journal of the History of Philosophy
Volume 36
Issue 4
Pages 507–523
Categories Psychology, Metaphysics
Author(s) Richard C. Taylor
Publisher(s)
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Personal Immortality in Averroes' Mature Philosophical Psychology, 1998
By: Richard C. Taylor
Title Personal Immortality in Averroes' Mature Philosophical Psychology
Type Article
Language English
Date 1998
Journal Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale
Volume 9
Pages 87–110
Categories Psychology
Author(s) Richard C. Taylor
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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Abstraction in al-Fārābī, 2006
By: Richard C. Taylor
Title Abstraction in al-Fārābī
Type Article
Language English
Date 2006
Journal Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
Volume 80
Pages 151–168
Categories Psychology
Author(s) Richard C. Taylor
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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Averroes on Psychology and the Principles of Metaphysics, 1998
By: Richard C. Taylor
Title Averroes on Psychology and the Principles of Metaphysics
Type Article
Language English
Date 1998
Journal Journal of the History of Philosophy
Volume 36
Issue 4
Pages 507–523
Categories Psychology, Metaphysics
Author(s) Richard C. Taylor
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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Averroes on the Ontology of the Human Soul, 2012
By: Richard C. Taylor
Title Averroes on the Ontology of the Human Soul
Type Article
Language English
Date 2012
Journal The Muslim World
Volume 102
Issue 3–4
Pages 580–596
Categories Ontology, Psychology
Author(s) Richard C. Taylor
Publisher(s)
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Averroes' Epistemology and Its Critique by Aquinas, 1999
By: Richard C. Taylor
Title Averroes' Epistemology and Its Critique by Aquinas
Type Article
Language English
Date 1999
Pages 147–177
Categories Aquinas, Psychology
Author(s) Richard C. Taylor
Publisher(s)
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Personal Immortality in Averroes' Mature Philosophical Psychology, 1998
By: Richard C. Taylor
Title Personal Immortality in Averroes' Mature Philosophical Psychology
Type Article
Language English
Date 1998
Journal Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale
Volume 9
Pages 87–110
Categories Psychology
Author(s) Richard C. Taylor
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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The Agent Intellect as "form for us" and Averroes's Critique of al-Fārābī, 2005
By: Richard C. Taylor
Title The Agent Intellect as "form for us" and Averroes's Critique of al-Fārābī
Type Article
Language English
Date 2005
Journal Tópicos. Revista de Filosofía
Volume 29
Pages 29–51
Categories Psychology, al-Fārābī
Author(s) Richard C. Taylor
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
This article explicates Averroes's understanding of human knowing and abstraction in this three commentaries on Aristotle's De Anima. While Averroes's views on the nature of the human material intellect changes through the three commentaries until he reaches is famous view of the unity of the material intellect as one for all human beings, his view of the agent intellect as 'form for us' is sustained throughout these works. In his Long Commentary on the De Anima he reveals his dependence on al-Fārābī for this notion and provides a detailed critique of the Farabian notion that the agent intellect is 'form for us' only as agent cause, not as our true formal cause. Although Averroes argues that the agent intellect must somehow be intrinsic to us as our form since humans are per se rational and undertake acts of knowing by will, his view is shown to rest on an equivocal use of the notion of formal cause. The agent intellect cannot be properly our intrinsic formal principle while remaining ontologically separate.

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