The making of a classic textbook : Katibi’s Shamsiyya and its context.
Organisation : Ahmed Hasnaoui (SPHERE–CHSPAM, CNRS)
PROGRAM : sessions from 10 :00 to 12 :00.
Building Condorcet, Université Paris Diderot, 4 rue Elsa Morante, 75013 - Paris*. Plan.
Seminar and courses by Pr Tony Street (University of Cambridge)
Tues. 4 Dec. 2012, room Klein (6th floor, 612B)
Aristotle Absent ? The structure of a thirteenth-century Arabic logic text
Why al-Katibi’s Shamsiyya is structured the way it is ?
Fri. 7 Dec.
, room Luc Valentin (4th floor, 454A) !! 11 :30 !!Medieval Arabic Logic : the state of the field.
An overview of medieval Arabic logic, and a list of the
pressing tasks for scholars to move the field ahead
Tues. 12 Dec.
, room Malevitch (4th floor, 483A)On the Actual in Thirteenth-century Arabic Logic.
An argument showing that recent research has misunderstood the way Arabic
logicians consider the actual when stipulating truth-conditions for their
propositions.
Tues. 18 Dec.
, room Klein (6th floor, 612B)Reading Katibi’s Proofs.
A class on Katibi’s proofs in the Shamsiyya ; I am particularly interested
in the inferences he takes to be self-evident.
Thu. 20 Dec.
, room Malevitch (4th floor, 483A)On Tusi’s Propositions and What They Correspond To.
A class on Tusi’s use of the idea of correspondence in defining his
propositions.
*Metro : line 14, RER C, stop : Bibliothèque Nationale. Bus : 62 89 325 64 / Avenue de France.
