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HoP 127 - Peter E Pormann on Medicine in the Islamic World

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Avicenna's Psychology

Avicenna is basically a philosopher but also does some medical practice. He associates various psychological faculties things like imagination with organs of the body and in particular the brain. Avicenna has this theory of the five inner senses so each sense you know in outside sense like sight to each outside faculty of sensation the corresponds in like something in the brain and it is situated in the brain.

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