Jon McGinnis (mcginnis-j)

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Bibliography

Ahmed, Asad Q. and McGinnis, Jon. 2016. “Faḍl-i Ḥaqq Khayrābādī (d. 1861), al-Hadiyya al-sa’īdiyya.” in The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy, edited by Khaled El-Rouayheb and Sabine Schmidtke, pp. 535–559. Oxford Handbooks. New York: Oxford University Press.
McGinnis, Jon. 1999a. “Time and Time Again: A Study of Aristotle and Ibn Sīnā’s Temporal Theories.” PhD dissertation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania.
McGinnis, Jon. 1999b. “Ibn Sīnā on the Now.” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 73(1): 73–106.
McGinnis, Jon. 2003a. “The Topology of Time: An Analysis of Medieval Islamic Accounts of Discrete and Continuous Time.” The Modern Schoolman 81: 17–23.
McGinnis, Jon. 2003b. “Making Time Aristotle’s Way.” Apeiron 36(2): 143–169.
McGinnis, Jon. 2003c. “Scientific Methodologies in Medieval Islam.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 41(3): 307–327.
McGinnis, Jon, ed. 2004a. Interpreting Avicenna: Science and Philosophy in Medieval Islam. Proceedings of the Second Annual Symposium of the Avicenna Study Group. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
McGinnis, Jon. 2004b. “On the Moment of Substantial Change: A Vexed Question in the History of Ideas.” in Interpreting Avicenna: Science and Philosophy in Medieval Islam. Proceedings of the Second Annual Symposium of the Avicenna Study Group, edited by Jon McGinnis, pp. 42–61. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
McGinnis, Jon. 2005. “The Avicennan Sources for Aquinas on Being: Supplemental Remarks to Davies (2005).” The Modern Schoolman 82: 131–142.
McGinnis, Jon. 2006a. “A Medieval Arabic Analysis of Motion at an Instant: The Avicennan Sources to the Forma Fluens / Fluxus Formae Debate.” The British Journal for the History of Science 39(2): 189–205.
McGinnis, Jon. 2006b. “Positing Heaven: The Infidelity of a Faithful Aristotelian.” Phronesis 51(2): 140–161.
McGinnis, Jon. 2006c. “A Penetrating Question in the History of Ideas: Space, Dimensionality and Interpenetration in the Thought of Avicenna.” Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 16: 47–69.
McGinnis, Jon. 2006d. “Arabic and Islamic Natural Philosophy and Natural Science.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2006/entries/arabic-islamic-natural/.
McGinnis, Jon. 2007a. “What Underlies the Change from Potentiality to Possibility: A Select History of the Theory of Matter from Aristotle to Avicenna.” Cadernos de História e Filosofia da Ciência 17(2): 259–278.
McGinnis, Jon. 2007b. “Paraconsistency and Logical Hypocrisy.” in The Logica Yearbook 2006, edited by Ondřej Tomala and Radek Honzı́k, pp. 181–190. Praha: Filosofia. Nakladetelstvı́ Filosofického ústavu AV ČR.
McGinnis, Jon. 2009. “Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā).” in The History of Western Philosophy of Religion. Volume 3: Medieval Philosophy of Religion, edited by Graham Oppy and Nick N. Trakakis, pp. 61–72. London: Routledge.
McGinnis, Jon. 2010a. Avicenna. Great Medieval Thinkers. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
McGinnis, Jon. 2010b. “Avicennan Infinity: A Select History of the Infinite through Avicenna.” Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale 21: 199–222.
McGinnis, Jon. 2011a. “Old Complexes and New Possibilities: Avicenna’s Modal Metaphysics in Context.” Journal of Islamic Philosophy 7: 5–34.
McGinnis, Jon. 2011b. “The Ultimate Why Question: Avicenna on Why God is Absolutely Necessary.” in The Ultimate Why Question: Why is There Anything at All Rather Than Nothing Whatsoever?, edited by John F. Wippel, pp. 65–83. Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy n. 54. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press.
McGinnis, Jon. 2012. “Making Something of Nothing: Privation, Possibility and Potential in Avicenna and Aquinas.” The Thomist 76: 1–25.
McGinnis, Jon. 2013a. “Arabic and Islamic Natural Philosophy and Natural Science.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2013/entries/arabic-islamic-natural/.
McGinnis, Jon. 2013b. “Creation and Eternity in Medieval Philosophy.” in A Companion to the Philosophy of Time, edited by Heather Dyke and Adrian Bardon, pp. 73–86. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, doi:10.1002/9781118522097.
McGinnis, Jon. 2013c. “New Light on Avicenna: Optics and Its Role in Avicennan theories of Vision, Cognition and Emanation.” in Philosophical Psychology in Arabic Thought and the Latin Aristotelianism of the 13\(^{th}\) Century, edited by Luis Xavier López-Farjeat and Jörg Alejandro Tellkamp, pp. 41–57. Sic et Non. Paris: Librairie philosophique Jean Vrin.
McGinnis, Jon. 2013d. “Avicenna’s Natural Philosophy.” in Interpreting Avicenna. Critical Essays, edited by Peter Adamson, pp. 71–90. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
McGinnis, Jon. 2014. “The Eternity of the World: Proofs and Problems in Aristotle, Avicenna, and Aquinas.” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 88(2): 271–288.
McGinnis, Jon. 2015. “A Small Discovery: Avicenna’s Theory of Minima Naturalia.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 53(1): 1–24.
McGinnis, Jon. 2016a. “The Hiddenness of ‘Divine Hiddenness’: Divine Love in Medieval Islamic Lands.” in Hidden Divinity and Religious Belief. New Perspectives, edited by Adam Green and Eleonore Stump, pp. 157–174. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/cbo9781139939621.
McGinnis, Jon. 2016b. “Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274), Sharḥ al-Ishārāt.” in The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy, edited by Khaled El-Rouayheb and Sabine Schmidtke, pp. 326–347. Oxford Handbooks. New York: Oxford University Press.
McGinnis, Jon. 2016c. “The Establishment of the Principles of Natural Philosophy.” in The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy, edited by Richard C. Taylor and Luis Xavier López-Farjeat, pp. 117–130. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
McGinnis, Jon. 2016d. “Ibn Sina’s Natural Philosophy.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2016/entries/ibn-sina-natural/.
McGinnis, Jon. 2017. “Experimental Thoughts on Thought Experiments in Medieval Islam.” in The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments, edited by Michael T. Stuart, Joerg H. Yiftach Fehige, and James Robert Brown, pp. 77–91. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9781315175027.
McGinnis, Jon. 2018. “Islamic Ethics.” in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Ethics, edited by Thomas Williams, pp. 77–100. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/9781316711859.
McGinnis, Jon. 2020. “Ibn Sina’s Natural Philosophy.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2020/entries/ibn-sina-natural/.
McGinnis, Jon. 2021. “The Power of Possibility: Power, Nature, and Possibility in Avicenna.” in Powers. A History, edited by Julia Jórati, pp. 82–106. Oxford Philosophical Concepts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780190925512.001.0001.
McGinnis, Jon. 2022. “Arabic and Islamic Natural Philosophy and Natural Science.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2022/entries/arabic-islamic-natural/.
McGinnis, Jon and Acar, Rahim. 2023. “Arabic and Islamic Philosophy of Religion.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2023/entries/arabic-islamic-religion/.
McGinnis, Jon and Reisman, David C., eds. 2007. Classical Arabic Philosophy. An Anthology of Sources. Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Co.
Ruffus, Anthony and McGinnis, Jon. 2015. “Willful Understanding: Avicenna’s Philosophy of Action and Theory of the Will.” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 97(2): 160–195.

Further References

Davies, Brian. 2005. “Kenny on Aquinas on Being.” The Modern Schoolman 82: 111–129.