Deborah Black

Deborah Black
BA, MA, PhD (Toronto)

Professor

Research interests: Classical Arabic philosophy; Medieval Latin philosophy, especially epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind.

Selected Publications

Logic and Aristotle's "Rhetoric" and "Poetics" in Medieval Arabic Philosophy (1990); “Consciousness and Self-Knowledge in Aquinas’s Critique of Averroes’s Psychology" (1993); “Mental Existence in Thomas Aquinas and Avicenna" (1999); “Estimation and Imagination: Western Divergences from an Arabic Paradigm” (2000);  "Models of the Mind: Metaphysical Presuppositions of the Averroist and Thomistic Accounts of Intellection” (2004); "Soul and Intellect in Arabic Philosophy,” in The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy (2004); "Knowledge and Certitude in Al-Farabi (2006); “Avicenna on Self-Awareness And Knowing that One Knows" (2008): "Al-Farabi on Meno's Paradox" (2008); "The Natue of Intellect" in The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy

(2010).

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