Overview
- Offers a unique perspective on Farabi's work on
- sub-demonstrative knowledge
- Provides a rational reconstruction approach to some of the great
- Medieval Islamic Philosophers
- Explores ancient Islamic texts with an originally modern and western perspective
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Front Matter
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About this book
In this book the author argues that the Falasifa, the Philosophers of the Islamic Golden Age, are usefully interpreted through the prism of the contemporary, western ethics of belief. He contends that their position amounts to what he calls ‘Moderate Evidentialism’ – that only for the epistemic elite what one ought to believe is determined by one’s evidence. The author makes the case that the Falasifa’s position is well argued, ingeniously circumvents issues in the epistemology of testimony, and is well worth taking seriously in the contemporary debate. He reasons that this is especially the case since the position has salutary consequences for how to respond to the sceptic, and for how we are to conceive of extremist belief.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Anthony Robert Booth is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex, UK. He also works for Trusting Banks, a NWO (Dutch Science Foundation) funded collaboration between the Universities of Groningen, the Netherlands, and Cambridge, UK. He has worked mainly on issues at the intersection of ethics and epistemology, and has published articles appearing in such journals as Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and Synthese. He also co-edited Intuitions (2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Islamic Philosophy and the Ethics of Belief
Authors: Anthony Robert Booth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55700-1
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55699-8Published: 05 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55700-1Published: 04 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 100
Topics: Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Non-Western Philosophy, Epistemology, Islam, Philosophy of Religion