Deborah L. B.

Deborah Louise Black
Canadian philosopher and specialist in the field of medieval studies, professor at the University of Toronto. The author of scientific works on classical Arab Islamic and medieval European philosophy.

1981 – graduated from the University of Toronto with a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Medieval Studies.

1982 – Graduated from the University of Toronto with a Master’s degree in Medieval Studies.

1987 – defended her doctoral thesis on the topic: “The Logical Dimensions of Rhetoric and Poetics: Aspects of Non-Demonstrative Reasoning in Medieval Arabic Philosophy” at the University of Toronto.

Black is an author of many scientific articles on al-Farabi’s work: “Knowledge (ʿilm) and Certitude (yaqīn) in Al-Fārābī’s Epistemology”, “Al-Fārābī as Historian of Philosophy and Philosopher of History”, “Al-Farabi on Meno’s Paradox” and others.