Peter Adamson (ed.) Paperback 9781316505359 Contents 1. The life and times of Avicenna: patronage and learning in medieval Islam - David C. Reisman 2. Avicenna's philosophical project - Dimitri Gutas 3. Avicenna on the syllogism - Tony Street 4. Avicenna's natural philosophy - Jon McGinnis 5. Avicenna and medicine - Peter E. Pormann 6. Avicenna's epistemological optimism - Dag Nikolaus Hasse 7. Certitude, justification, and the principles of knowledge in Avicenna's epistemology - Deborah Black 8. Avicenna's metaphysics - Stephen Menn 9. From the necessary existent to God - Peter Adamson 10. Avicenna's Islamic reception - Robert Wisnovsky 11. The reception of Avicenna in Jewish cultures, East and West - Gad Freudenthal and Mauro Zonta 12. Avicenna's Christian reception - Amos Bertolacci