Surveying the Summae: Comparisons and Contrasts among Avicenna's Eight Main Works (Proceedings of the Third Meeting of the Avicenna Study Group)

Avicenna was a prolific scholar and, throughout his career, authored eight complete summae of philosophy. Although these eight "main works" vary in terms of length, content, order, and intended readership, they all profess to contain a more or less "complete" version of Avicenna’s theoretical philosophy. So far, scholarship on Avicenna either selected only one or two of these "main works" as the primary target of investigation (leaving the others aside) or considered them mainly from the pe...