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  1. When Science Became Western: Historiographical Reflections.Marwa Elshakry - 2010 - Isis 101 (1):98-109.
    ABSTRACT While thinking about the notion of the “global” in the history of the history of science, this essay examines a related but equally basic concept: the idea of “Western science.” Tracing its rise in the nineteenth century, it shows how it developed as much outside the Western world as within it. Ironically, while the idea itself was crucial for the disciplinary formation of the history of science, the global history behind this story has not been much attended to. Drawing (...)
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  • Dialecticians and dialectics in averroes’ long commentary on gamma 2 of Aristotle's metaphysics.Yehuda Halper - 2016 - Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 26 (1):161-184.
    RésuméSi l’œuvre d'Averroès est souvent considérée comme étant le sommet de la méthode démonstrative aristotélicienne dans la philosophie arabe, un bref passage de sonGrand commentaireàMétaphysiqueΓ.2 d'Aristote souligne l'importance primordiale de la dialectique et suggère d'examiner à nouveaux frais le statut de la dialectique et de la démonstration dans l’œuvre philosophique d'Averroès. Dans ce passage, Averroès décrit la dialectique comme une forme acceptable de philosophie et le dialecticien comme un certain type de scientifique. En mettant la dialectique et la démonstration à (...)
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  • Muslim hermeneutics and arabic views of evolution.Marwa Elshakry - 2011 - Zygon 46 (2):330-344.
    Abstract. Over the last century and a half, discussions of Darwin in Arabic have involved a complex intertwining of sources of authority. This paper reads one of the earliest Muslim responses to modern evolution against those in more recent times to show how questions of epistemology and exegesis have been critically revisited. This involved, on the one hand, the resuscitation of long-standing debates over claims regarding the nature of evidence, certainty, and doubt, and on the other, arguments about the use (...)
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