A Response to Trifogli on Glasner, Averroes' Physics

Abstract

Professor Trifogli offers an informative and useful overview of Ruth Glasner’s book Averroes’ Physics: A Turning Point in Medieval Natural Philosophy.1 It is far beyond my competence to comment on her disagreements with the book, except, I hope, for a single, but essential, methodological point. Before formulating it, in the interest of disclosure, let me state that Professor Glasner has been a close friend and an esteemed colleague of mine for many years; I do not think however that this biographical fact in any way interferes with what I am about to say.