Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction: Averroes and the Theory of Causal Efficacy 2. Averroes on the Logic of Agents and Acts The Literary Character of the Tahafut Debates The Context and Structure of Averroes' Criteriological Analysis Agents and Agency Acts and Effects 3. Averroes on Necessary Connection: Causes, Effects, and the Missing Link Necessary Connection and the Problem of the Miraculous Empirical Evidence and the Cause for Causal Efficacy Metaphysics and the Case for Causal Efficacy Nature vs. the Habitual Course of Events Malleable Natures vs. Stable Natures 4. Spheres, Cycles, and Celestial Intelligences: The Celestial Links in the Causal Chain The Sphere System and the Problem of Continuous Change Celestial Animation and the "Kinetic" Code 5. Divine Causation and the Doctrine of Eternal Creation The World as an Eternal Creation Eternal Creation by Will or Intellect? Causal Knowing and the Theory of Emanation Did Averroes Subscribe to the Theory of Emanation? Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Barry S. Kogan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hebrew Union College.

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