Research interests: Classical Arabic philosophy; Medieval Latin
philosophy, especially epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of
mind.
Selected Publications
Logic and Aristotle’s “Rhetoric” and “Poetics” in Medieval Arabic
Philosophy (1990); ?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); “Soul and Intellect in Arabic Philosophy,? in
The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy (2004); “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
Nature of Intellect” in The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy
Deborah Black
BA, MA, PhD (Toronto)
Professor, Department of Philosophy
Phn: 416-946-5983