Mind, Medicine and Metaphysics: The Philosophy of a Physician

Mind, Medicine and Metaphysics

The Philosophy of a Physician, by William Brown, D.M. (Oxon), D.Sc. (Lond.), F.R.C.P. London, Oxford University Press, 1936. Price 7/6d. A series of fourteen essays and lectures upon medical, psychological and metaphysical topics is chosen by the author as the medium for conveying to the general reader (a) a philosophy of life and (b) the philosophy of a physician (the author). Each essay is co...

The Influence of Ibn Sìnå on Gadr ad-Dìn Qinawì and His Followers

This article is an investigation into the nature of the Sufi metaphysics of Gadr ad-Dìn Qinawì and his followers. In contrast to previous scholars, who have considered Qinawì to be dismissive of philosophy in a way similar to Ghazålì, the author shows that in fact philosophical metaphysics, and in particular the formulations of Ibn Sìnå, had a great impact on Qinawì and his followers in the sch...

Philosophy of Mind and Metaphysics Lecture II: Identity over Time and over Change of Composition

Metaphysics or science: The battle for the soul of philosophy of mind

The Rrelationship between Philosophy and Medicine in The Works of Imam Fakhr Razi: A Distinct Model from Galen and Avicenna

The long-standing interaction of philosophy and medicine has assumed to be as follows: great physicians have been also philosophers, so there is a relationship between medicine and philosophy. In this paper, based on philosophical modeling, essentials of interaction for medicine and philosophy are presented. First, brief descriptions of two models of medicine-philosophy interaction are presente...