Deborah Louise Black

Deborah Louise Black (* 1958 ) is a Canadian historian of philosophy .

Black is Professor of Philosophy and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto , where she also completed her studies. Her main research interests are in Arabic ( Al-Farabi , Avicenna , Averroes ) and medieval philosophy ( Thomas Aquinas ), including the reception of ancient Greek philosophy , especially the rhetoric and poetics of Aristotle , the Menon dialogue from Plato and Neoplatonism .

Fonts (selection)

• Logic and Aristotle's "Rhetoric" and "Poetics" in Medieval Arabic Philosophy. Brill, Leiden 1990.
• Logic in Islamic Philosophy. (1990) Excerpt: online (PDF; 111 kB)
• Consciousness and Self-Knowledge in Aquinas's Critique of Averroes's Psychology. (1993).
• Mental Existence in Thomas Aquinas and Avicenna. (1999).
• Estimation and Imagination: Western Divergences from an Arabic Paradigm. (2000).
• Models of the Mind: Metaphysical Presuppositions of the Averroist and Thomistic Accounts of Intellection. (2004), online (PDF; 154 kB)
• Soul and Intellect in Arabic Philosophy. In: Peter Adamson , Richard C. Taylor (Eds.): The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004, online .
• Knowledge and Certitude in Al-Farabi. (2006).
• Avicenna on Self-Awareness And Knowing that One Knows. (2008).
• Al-Farabi on Meno's Paradox. (2008).
• The Natue of Intellect. In: Robert Pasnau, Christina van Dyke (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, Vol. 1. Cambridge UP, Cambridge 2010.

Web links

• Page at the University of Toronto
• Personal page (with online papers)
• Black in the catalog of the Institut dominicain d'Études Orientales, Cairo