Intentionality in Medieval Arabic Philosophy, 2010
By: Deborah L. Black
Title Intentionality in Medieval Arabic Philosophy
Type Article
Language English
Date 2010
Journal Quaestio
Volume 10
Pages 65-81
Categories Avicenna, Psychology, Metaphysics, Linguistics
Author(s) Deborah L. Black
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
It has long been a truism of the history of philosophy that intentionality is an invention of the medieval period, and within this standard narrative, the central place of Arabic philosophy has always been acknowledged. Yet there are many misconceptions surrounding the theories of intentionality advanced by the two main Arabic thinkers whose works were available to the West, Avicenna and Averroes. In the first part of this paper I offer an overview of the general accounts of intentionality and intentional being found in the linguistic, psychological, and metaphysical writings of Avicenna and Averroes, and I trace the terminology of “intentions” to a neglected passage from Avicenna’s logic. In the second part of the paper I examine the way that Avicenna and Averroes apply their general theories of intentionality to the realm of sense perception. I offer an explanation of why Avicenna might have chosen to denominate the objects of the internal sense faculty of estimation as “intentions”, and I explore the implications of Averroes’s decision to attribute intentionality to the external senses and the media of perception.

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Da Avicenna ad Averroè. 'Questiones super librum de Anima', Oxford 1250 c.a. (ms. Siena Com. L. III. 21), 1992
By: Mariella Gardinali
Title Da Avicenna ad Averroè. 'Questiones super librum de Anima', Oxford 1250 c.a. (ms. Siena Com. L. III. 21)
Type Article
Language Italian
Date 1992
Journal Rivista di storia della filosofia
Volume 47
Pages 375–407
Categories Psychology, De anima, Avicenna
Author(s) Mariella Gardinali
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Translator(s)

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Gedächtnis und Erinnerung bei Avicenna und Averroes, 1988
By: Helmut Gätje
Title Gedächtnis und Erinnerung bei Avicenna und Averroes
Type Article
Language German
Date 1988
Journal Acta orientalia
Volume 49
Pages 7–36
Categories Psychology, Avicenna
Author(s) Helmut Gätje
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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Philosophische Traumlehren im Islam, 1959
By: Helmut Gätje
Title Philosophische Traumlehren im Islam
Type Article
Language German
Date 1959
Journal Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft
Volume 109 (n.F. 34)
Issue 25
Pages 258-285
Categories Surveys, al-Kindī, al-Fārābī, Avicenna, Aristotle, Psychology
Author(s) Helmut Gätje
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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Da Avicenna ad Averroè. 'Questiones super librum de Anima', Oxford 1250 c.a. (ms. Siena Com. L. III. 21), 1992
By: Mariella Gardinali
Title Da Avicenna ad Averroè. 'Questiones super librum de Anima', Oxford 1250 c.a. (ms. Siena Com. L. III. 21)
Type Article
Language Italian
Date 1992
Journal Rivista di storia della filosofia
Volume 47
Pages 375–407
Categories Psychology, De anima, Avicenna
Author(s) Mariella Gardinali
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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Gedächtnis und Erinnerung bei Avicenna und Averroes, 1988
By: Helmut Gätje
Title Gedächtnis und Erinnerung bei Avicenna und Averroes
Type Article
Language German
Date 1988
Journal Acta orientalia
Volume 49
Pages 7–36
Categories Psychology, Avicenna
Author(s) Helmut Gätje
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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Intentionality in Medieval Arabic Philosophy, 2010
By: Deborah L. Black
Title Intentionality in Medieval Arabic Philosophy
Type Article
Language English
Date 2010
Journal Quaestio
Volume 10
Pages 65-81
Categories Avicenna, Psychology, Metaphysics, Linguistics
Author(s) Deborah L. Black
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
It has long been a truism of the history of philosophy that intentionality is an invention of the medieval period, and within this standard narrative, the central place of Arabic philosophy has always been acknowledged. Yet there are many misconceptions surrounding the theories of intentionality advanced by the two main Arabic thinkers whose works were available to the West, Avicenna and Averroes. In the first part of this paper I offer an overview of the general accounts of intentionality and intentional being found in the linguistic, psychological, and metaphysical writings of Avicenna and Averroes, and I trace the terminology of “intentions” to a neglected passage from Avicenna’s logic. In the second part of the paper I examine the way that Avicenna and Averroes apply their general theories of intentionality to the realm of sense perception. I offer an explanation of why Avicenna might have chosen to denominate the objects of the internal sense faculty of estimation as “intentions”, and I explore the implications of Averroes’s decision to attribute intentionality to the external senses and the media of perception.

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Philosophische Traumlehren im Islam, 1959
By: Helmut Gätje
Title Philosophische Traumlehren im Islam
Type Article
Language German
Date 1959
Journal Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft
Volume 109 (n.F. 34)
Issue 25
Pages 258-285
Categories Surveys, al-Kindī, al-Fārābī, Avicenna, Aristotle, Psychology
Author(s) Helmut Gätje
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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