Dustin D Klinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 9489259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dustin D Klinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dustin D |
| FAMILY NAME | Klinger |
| SIGNATURE | KLINGER D D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3850-1375 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“All knowledge is either conception or assent”. On the history and significance of a fundamental distinction in Islamic philosophy
Following Aristotle, classical Islamic philosophers distinguished between two types of knowledge: conception and assent. This paper argues that the discussions elicited by this distinction are an essential feature of postclassical Islamic philosophy (ca. 1200–1800). The early postclassical philosophers made the distinction central to logic and thereby to epistemology and scientific inquiry at large. As the distinction came to be perceived as prob…
Being Another Way
Forms of Carroll’s Paradox in Post-Classical Arabic Logic
Arabic logicians in the thirteenth century discussed a set of arguments raised by the theologian Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 1210) that in some respects closely resembles Carroll’s paradox. Roughly, the paradox states that we can never reach a conclusion from a set of premises without incurring an infinite regress. The present article presents and discusses Rāzī’s formulation of the problem with syllogistic deduction, his own solutions to the proble…
Rereading Metaphysics Ε2-3
In the fresh reading proposed here of the still not satisfactorily interpreted passages in Metaphysics Ε2-3, Aristotle emerges as making a case against determinism based on a robust notion of the accident. Accidental beings are uncaused causes and have their rightful place in Aristotle's ontology. The resulting physical indeterminism is here used as a litmus test for the exegetical practice of the great Commentator, Averroes, whose self-proclaime…
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Rereading Metaphysics Ε2-3
In the fresh reading proposed here of the still not satisfactorily interpreted passages in Metaphysics Ε2-3, Aristotle emerges as making a case against determinism based on a robust notion of the accident. Accidental beings are uncaused causes and have their rightful place in Aristotle's ontology. The resulting physical indeterminism is here used as a litmus test for the exegetical practice of the great Commentator, Averroes, whose self-proclaime…
Being Another Way
Forms of Carroll’s Paradox in Post-Classical Arabic Logic
Arabic logicians in the thirteenth century discussed a set of arguments raised by the theologian Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 1210) that in some respects closely resembles Carroll’s paradox. Roughly, the paradox states that we can never reach a conclusion from a set of premises without incurring an infinite regress. The present article presents and discusses Rāzī’s formulation of the problem with syllogistic deduction, his own solutions to the proble…
“All knowledge is either conception or assent”. On the history and significance of a fundamental distinction in Islamic philosophy
Following Aristotle, classical Islamic philosophers distinguished between two types of knowledge: conception and assent. This paper argues that the discussions elicited by this distinction are an essential feature of postclassical Islamic philosophy (ca. 1200–1800). The early postclassical philosophers made the distinction central to logic and thereby to epistemology and scientific inquiry at large. As the distinction came to be perceived as prob…
Epistemology (3 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Islamic Studies and History (2 works) · Accidental (1 work) · Arabic (1 work) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Determinism (1 work) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (1 work)