Arabic-Islamic Philosophy
The main focus of my current research at Tufts is the reception of Ancient Greek logic and epistemology in Arabic.
Before moving to Massachusetts, I had been working as a research associate on a project co-funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and coordinated, as principal investigators, by C. Schöck (Bochum) and T. Street (Cambridge).
Here is a link to the project webpage.
I am especially interested in the development of logic and epistemology in al-Fārābī (d. 950), Avicenna (d. 1037), and the post-classical period. My first book is a monograph on Avicenna's conception of scientific knowledge based on his Kitāb al-Burhān (Book of Demonstration), currently in print with University of California Berkeley Press. I am also producing the first annotated translation into English of Avicenna's Burhān, a milestone in the development of Arabic philosophy and in the commentary tradition of the Posterior Analytics.
Before moving to Massachusetts, I had been working as a research associate on a project co-funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and coordinated, as principal investigators, by C. Schöck (Bochum) and T. Street (Cambridge).
Here is a link to the project webpage.
I am especially interested in the development of logic and epistemology in al-Fārābī (d. 950), Avicenna (d. 1037), and the post-classical period. My first book is a monograph on Avicenna's conception of scientific knowledge based on his Kitāb al-Burhān (Book of Demonstration), currently in print with University of California Berkeley Press. I am also producing the first annotated translation into English of Avicenna's Burhān, a milestone in the development of Arabic philosophy and in the commentary tradition of the Posterior Analytics.
Medieval Latin Philosophy
My first interest in medieval philosophy was prompted by the study of problems in the logical analysis of the continuum in the work of the Oxford calculators, but I was soon attracted by the more general development of logic in the 14th-century Latin tradition.
My research covers a variety of topics in medieval logic and philosophy of language such as theories of truth, propositions, inference, obligations and paradoxes.
I am carrying out a comprehensive study of Peter of Mantua's (d. 1399) Logic, with the aim of providing a detailed account of the reception and original re-interpretation of English and Continental logic in Italy in the at the end of the 14th century. The first step in this direction is a monograph entitled Concedere, negare, dubitare, currently in print with Brill Publishers, which focuses Peter of Mantua's treatise on obligations (including its first critical edition and translation into English). Obligations are complex genre of medieval logic dealing with the rules that govern opposing and responding in a highly regimented format of disputation loosely inspired by the eighth book of Aristotle's Topics.
My research covers a variety of topics in medieval logic and philosophy of language such as theories of truth, propositions, inference, obligations and paradoxes.
I am carrying out a comprehensive study of Peter of Mantua's (d. 1399) Logic, with the aim of providing a detailed account of the reception and original re-interpretation of English and Continental logic in Italy in the at the end of the 14th century. The first step in this direction is a monograph entitled Concedere, negare, dubitare, currently in print with Brill Publishers, which focuses Peter of Mantua's treatise on obligations (including its first critical edition and translation into English). Obligations are complex genre of medieval logic dealing with the rules that govern opposing and responding in a highly regimented format of disputation loosely inspired by the eighth book of Aristotle's Topics.
