Self-Awareness in Islamic Philosophy Avicenna and Beyond
- New York Cambridge University Press 2015
- 257p
includes index and biblioraphy
1. Preliminary observations: self-cognition and Avicennian Psychology 12 2. Avicenna and the phenomenon of self-awareness: the experiential basis of the flying man 30 3. Self- awareness as existence: Avicenna on the individuality of an incorporeal substance 43 4. In the first person: Avicenna`s concept of self-awareness reconstructed 62 5. Self-awareness without substance: from Abu al-barakat al-Baghdadi to Suhrawardi 104