Richard C. Taylor

Richard C. Taylor (born August 29, 1950 ) is an American historian of philosophy .

Taylor studied philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo and acquired in 1972 the BA He continued his studies at the University of Toronto in philosophy and medieval studies continued and in 1982 with a thesis on Liber de causis for Ph.D. PhD. Since then, Taylor has been a lecturer at Marquette University , and since 2008 professor of philosophy.

Taylor's research focuses on the reception of Aristotle and Neoplatonism in Islamic philosophy of the Middle Ages and in the mutual religious history of Islam , Judaism and Christianity . Taylor published on the reception of Aristotelian psychology and metaphysics primarily in the work of Averroes . Together with Cristina D'Ancona Costa and Gerhard Endress , Taylor is working on the edition and translation of the Proclus Arabus and the Liber de causis .

Fonts

• Averroes (Ibn Rushd) of Cordoba. Long Commentary on the De Anima of Aristotle . Translated with introduction and notes by Richard C. Taylor with Thérèse-Anne Druart. Yale University Press, New Haven 2009. Online reviews: Nadja Germann, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 02/21/2010 , Taneli Kukkonen, Philosophy in Review Vol 30, No 1 (2010) 4-5 .
• (Ed., With Peter Adamson ): The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004, online .
• The Liber de Causis (Kalām fī maḥḍ al-ḫayr). A Study of Medieval Neoplatonism . Diss. Toronto 1981 (contains the critical edition of the Arabic text with English translation and commentary).

Web links

• Homepage, Marquette University
• DARE - The Digital Averroes Research Environment, project of the Thomas Institute, University of Cologne