[...]...List of Contributors PETER ADAMSON Philosophy Department King’s College London London UK TUOMO AHO Department of Philosophy University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland ANNA AKASOY Oriental Institute Oxford UK FABRIZIO AMERINI Department of Philosophy University of Parma Parma Italy GEORGE ARABATZIS Research Centre on Greek Philosophy Academy of Athens Athens Greece ANDREW W ARLIG Department of Philosophy. .. Netherlands RICHARD CROSS Department of Philosophy University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN USA CHRISTOPHER CULLEN Department of Philosophy Fordham University New York, NY USA CRISTINA D’ANCONA Dipartimento di Filosofia ` Universita di Pisa Pisa Italy SANDRO D’ONOFRIO Modern Romance Languages and Literatures SUNY at Buffalo Amherst, NY USA SANDER DE BOER Center for the History of Philosophy and Science... Netherlands GEORGI KAPRIEV Faculty of Philosophy Sofia University St Kliment Ochridski Sofia Bulgaria SIMO KNUUTTILA Faculty of Theology University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland GEORGE KARAMANOLIS Department of Philosophy and Social Studies University of Crete Rethymno Greece ¨ CATHERINE KONIG-PRALONG ´partement de Philosophie De ´ Universite de Fribourg Fribourg Switzerland ¨ ¨ PEKKA KARKKAINEN Faculty of. .. MATTHEWS Department of Philosophy University of Massachusetts at Amherst Amherst, MA USA JOZEF MATULA Department of Philosophy, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy Palacky University Olomouc Czech Republic T J H MCCARTHY New College of Florida Sarasota, FL USA ARTHUR STEPHEN MCGRADE Department of Philosophy (Professor Emeritus) University of Connecticut Storrs, CT USA List of Contributors BRIAN... School of Philosophy University College Dublin Dublin Ireland ´ SEBASTIEN MOUREAU Institut Orientaliste ´ Universite Catholique de Louvain Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium STEVEN NADLER Department of Philosophy University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI USA LODI NAUTA Department of Philosophy University of Groningen Groningen The Netherlands SIMON NOLAN Department of Philosophy National University of Ireland... Scientifique Bruxelles Belgium xii List of Contributors EGBERT BOS Philosophy University of Leiden Leiden The Netherlands MARGARET CAMERON Department of Philosophy University of Victoria Victoria, BC Canada JEAN-BAPTISTE BRENET Paris France JOSEPH CANNING Girton College University of Cambridge Cambridge UK SUSAN BROWER-TOLAND Department of Philosophy College of Arts and Sciences Saint Louis University... Department of French, Italian and Classical Languages Stockholm University Stockholm Sweden LAURENT CESALLI Department of Philosophy University of Geneva Geneva Switzerland List of Contributors JOEL CHANDELIER ´ Universite de Paris 8 Paris France ABDESSELAM CHEDDADI Faculty of Educational Sciences University Mohammed V Rabat Morocco IVAN CHRISTOV Faculty of Theology University of Sofia Sofia Bulgaria... RIA VAN DER LECQ History of Philosophy Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands ELVIRA WAKELNIG Department of Classics and Ancient History Warwick University Coventry UK IAN WILKS Department of Philosophy Acadia University Wolfville, NS Canada THOMAS WILLIAMS Departments of Philosophy and Religious Studies University of South Florida Tampa, FL USA JEFFREY C WITT Department of Philosophy Boston College... much-desired goal of his :ı pilgrimage, the place where he finally met Aristotle and his philosophy, that of his commentators Themistius and Alexander, and where he finally met the greatest Arabic Aristotelian commentator of the East, al-Farabı, who was ¯ ¯ ¯ for him the first to be able to integrate the Islamic and Greek knowledge and to lay the foundations of a new system of sciences The experience of Cairo... University of Jerusalem-Rothberg International School Jerusalem Israel List of Contributors ˙ ELZBIETA JUNG Department of Philosophy ´ ´ University of Łodz ´ ´ Łodz Poland GYULA KLIMA Department of Philosophy Fordham University New York, NY USA ANDREAS KAMP ¨ Institut fur Politische Wissenschaft ¨ ¨ Universitat zu Koln Cologne Germany C H KNEEPKENS Medieval and Renaissance Studies University of Groningen . alt="" Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy Philosophy Between 500 and 1500 Henrik Lagerlund (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy Philosophy Between 500 and 1500 With 7 Figures and 12 Tables Editor Henrik. D’Ancona Department of Philosophy University of Pisa Pisa Italy Alain de Libera Department of Philosophy University of Geneva Geneva Switzerland Katerina Ierodiakonou Department of Philosophy and History of Science University. what medieval philosophy is. It simply aims to cover philosophy between the period 500 and 1500. It is my belief that there is nothing that is distinctly medieval about philosophy between these