Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
Areas of Specialization
Arabic and Islamic Philosophy
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics and Epistemology
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    Untangling Determinism: Revisiting the Principle of Sufficient Reason in the Post-Avicennian Debates on Free Will
    Nazariyat, Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences 9 (2): 41-68. 2023.
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    A third realm ontology? Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī and the nafs al-amr
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 33 (3). 2025.
    The standard interpretation of Avicenna's correspondence theory of truth posits that propositions either correspond to what exists extramentally or otherwise their truthmaker is mental existence. An influential post-Avicennian philosopher, Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī (d. 1274) points to the insufficiency of the above division of propositions and their respective truthmakers. He mentions the possibility of conceiving false propositions, such as ‘One is not half of two’ and postulates the necessity of the e…Read more
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    The Role of Pre-Socratics in Ṣadrā’s Philosophy
    Philosophy East and West 74 (1): 66-88. 2024.
    The philosophical activities during the Safavid era mark the peak of a renewed engagement with Greek sources unmediated by Ibn Sina's interest in them and their successive incorporation into his philosophy.1 Among the topics for which the Safavid thinkers consulted ancient Greek authors were cosmology, the role of the intellect and the ways of acquiring knowledge, the nature of the soul, and the process of emanation.2 This engagement, to be sure, did not mean an antiquarian, philological return …Read more
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    A third realm ontology? Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī and the nafs al-amr
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 33 (3): 435-459. 2024.
    The standard interpretation of Avicenna's correspondence theory of truth posits that propositions either correspond to what exists extramentally or otherwise their truthmaker is mental existence. An influential post-Avicennian philosopher, Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī (d. 1274) points to the insufficiency of the above division of propositions and their respective truthmakers. He mentions the possibility of conceiving false propositions, such as ‘One is not half of two’ and postulates the necessity of the e…Read more
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    Determinizmi Çözmek: İbn Sîn' Sonrası Özgür İrade Tartışmalarında Yeter Sebep İlkesinin Yeniden Ele Alınışı
    Nazariyat, Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences 9 (2): 37-63. forthcoming.
    İbn Sînâ, Yeter Sebep İlkesi’ni (YSİ), yani her şeyin bir sebebi olduğu ve sebepsiz hiçbir varlığın var olamayacağı iddiasını savunan modern dönem öncesi filozoflarından biridir. YSİ’nin sonuçlarından biri de zorunlulukçuluktur (necessitarianism); yani gerçekte var olan her şeyin aynı zamanda zorunlu olarak var olduğu iddiasıdır. Bu fikre göre sebepler zincirinin her bir üyesi kendinden önceki sebepler tarafından belirlenir. Dolayısıyla YSİ, olayların başka türlü de olabileceğini telkin eden ins…Read more