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  1. Varieties of consciousness in classical Arabic thought: Avicenna, Averroes, and the mutakallimūn.Deborah L. Black - forthcoming - British Journal for the History of Philosophy:1-22.
    In classical Arabic philosophy, the topic of consciousness is commonly associated with Avicenna's ‘Flying Man’ thought experiment. But Avicenna's explorations of the nature of consciousness are not confined to the Flying Man, and he is by no means the only classical Islamic thinker to deem consciousness an important feature of our experience. Consciousness also plays a important role in the epistemology and moral psychology of Avicenna's intellectual rivals, the theologians (mutakallumūn), who represent important sources for Avicenna's own theorizing about consciousness. (...)
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  • The Mouse’s Tale: al-Jāḥiẓ, Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī on Animal Thinking.Sarah Virgi - 2022 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 30 (5):751-772.
    The present article explores the views of al-Jāḥiẓ, Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī - three pre-modern thinkers of the Islamic world outside the Peripatetic tradition - on the question o...
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  • Avicenna on representation: towards an existential-relational account of intentionality.Zhenyu Cai - forthcoming - British Journal for the History of Philosophy:1-20.
    Many scholars consider Avicenna’s theory of cognitive forms a theory of representation, which raises two questions. First, why does a cognitive form represent a particular object instead of another? This issue is known as the determination problem. Second, what is the nature of intentionality of the cognitive form? This is known as the nature problem. This paper examines Avicenna’s theory of cognitive forms and focuses on how he would address the two problems. I argue that Avicenna offers a pluralistic approach (...)
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