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Experience and Rational Demonstration: Sufis vs. Philosophers in Medieval Islam
In this project, I focus on the way in which Aristotelian notions of reason and experience were first translated into Arabic. During the ninth and ten
Experience and Observation in Narboni's Commentaries on Maimonides' Treatises
The project explores the role of experience in Moses ben Joshua Narboni’s commentaries on two texts by Maimonides: Guide of the Perplexed and Treatise
Between Natural Philosophy and Convention: Albert the Great’s Approach to an Empirical Anthropology
Albert the Great (1200–1280) is one of the earliest and most influential thirteenth-century thinkers to study human beings from the perspective of nat
The Vegetative Soul and Plants in the Study of Living Bodies
Vegetation and vegetative powers, in their ability to preserve, maintain, and reproduce life, have shaped the understanding of living bodies and the d
Alfarabi and Averroes on What is Known Prior to Scientific Demonstration
Alfarabi’s and Averroes’s philosophical treatises are guided by a common recognition that there are four types of knowledge (maʽlūmāt) which are prior
Experience of Soul and Body in the Chinese Jesuit Sciences, 1583–1683
In Jesuit psychological writings, especially from Matteo Ricci to Francesco Sambiasi, one can observe a cognitive sequence from the reception of the f
Collecting Ears: Marin Mersenne and the Study of Music in Early Modern Europe
This project focuses on the changing role of experience, techniques of observation, and the use of material instruments in seventeenth-century acousti
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In my PhD project, I argue that a particular shift in musical and acoustical techniques of observations took place in the early modern perio
Dror Weil
Dror Weil received his PhD from Princeton University's Department of East Asian St...
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Agriculture, Soil, and Concepts of Nature in Late Ming Farming Manuals
Although many Chinese farming manuals (nongshu 農書) contain detailed information on proper methods for tilling the soil, such as plowing, harrowing, or
Translatability and Innovation: Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia (1544) in Translation between Languages, Media, and Practices
Translation is an intellectual product that is as much determined by its past in the source domain as it is shaped by its future in the target domain.