Avicenna Summary

Ibn Sina (980–1037), philosopher, scientist, physician. Ibn Sina was a philosopher, scientist, and physician better known in the West as Avicenna. His full name was Abu ʿAli al-Husain ib... Read more

Ibn Sina 980-1037 Arab Physician and Philosopher Known in the West as Avicenna, the Arab thinker Ibn Sina was among the most influential figures in European philosophy and science during a period of h... Read more

Avicenna(980–1037) Avicenna, whose full name was Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd-Allāh ibn Sīnā, was the most renowned and influential philos... Read more

Inner Senses The scholastic theory of the inner senses can be viewed as an attempt to explain and classify cognitive abilities shared by human beings and nonrational animals, abilities that go beyond ... Read more

Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abd Allah ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna, was a highly respected Persian physician whose medical treatise, the Canon of Medicine, influenced medical practice for centuri... Read more

In the following essay, Davidson insists that, although Avicenna purports to prove God's existence based on the concept of a necessarily existent being, his ontological argument is rather a kin... Read more

In the following excerpt, Butterworth discusses Avicenna's moral and political philosophy. [Avicenna's] writing takes the form of essays about Aristotelian treatises and themes, essay... Read more