Avicenna and Averroes. Black, D. L. In Bernecker, S. & Michaelian, K., editors, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory, pages 448–460. Routledge, New York, 2017.
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[first paragraph] Avicenna and Averroes developed their accounts of memory within the broader framework of their theories of the internal senses, a cluster of faculties localized in the brain which were posited to explain a variety of sensory operations. The internal senses originate as an attempt to refine and systematize Aristotle's account of imagination (phantasia) and to harmonize it with later developments in medical theory stemming from the physician Galen. As Avicenna observes, " What [Aristotle] brings together here under the term 'imagination' can be divided into a number of active powers, such as estimation and cogitation, and retentive powers, such as the formative faculty and memory. " Yet the theories developed under the rubric of the " internal senses " also include many new elements not present in Aristotle's psychology. One significant source for many of these developments was the Arabic version of the Parva naturalia, which is not a unadulterated translation of Aristotle, but an adaptation that incorporated mat erials from Neo-Platonic sources. On the basis of these diverse sources, Avicenna and Averroes developed their own competing accounts of the nature of memory.
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abstract = {[first paragraph] Avicenna and Averroes developed their accounts of memory within the broader framework of their theories of the internal senses, a cluster of faculties localized in the brain which were posited to explain a variety of sensory operations. The internal senses originate as an attempt to refine and systematize Aristotle's account of imagination (phantasia) and to harmonize it with later developments in medical theory stemming from the physician Galen. As Avicenna observes, " What [Aristotle] brings together here under the term 'imagination' can be divided into a number of active powers, such as estimation and cogitation, and retentive powers, such as the formative faculty and memory. " Yet the theories developed under the rubric of the " internal senses " also include many new elements not present in Aristotle's psychology. One significant source for many of these developments was the Arabic version of the Parva naturalia, which is not a unadulterated translation of Aristotle, but an adaptation that incorporated mat erials from Neo-Platonic sources. On the basis of these diverse sources, Avicenna and Averroes developed their own competing accounts of the nature of memory.},
address = {New York},
author = {Black, Deborah L.},
booktitle = {The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory},
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