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9Book Review on Sculpting the Self: Islam, Selfhood and Human Flourishing (by Muhammad Faruque) (review)Comparative Philosophy 14 (1). 2023.
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13Book Review on Sculpting the Self: Islam, Selfhood and Human FlourishingComparative Philosophy 14 (1). 2023.
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Nasir Khusraw and the Poetics of EnlightenmentIn Alice C. Hunsberger (ed.), Pearls of Persia: the philosophical poetry of Nāṣir-i Khusraw, In Association With the Institute of Ismaili Studies. pp. 73-90. 2012.
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291The Sublime Visions of Philosophy: Fundamental Ontology and the Imaginal World (‘Ālam al–mithāl)In Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (ed.), Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology on the Perennial Issue of Microcosm and Macrocosm, . pp. 183-201. 2006.
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255Intentionality, Politics, and ReligionReligious Inquiries 4 (8): 17-22. 2015.The idea that intentionality is the distinctive mark of the mental or that only mental phenomena have intentionality emerged in the philosophical tradition after Franz Brentano. Much of contemporary philosophy is dedicated to a rejection of the view that mental phenomena have original intentionality. In other words, main strands of contemporary philosophy seek to naturalize intentionality of the mental by tracing it to linguistic intentionality. So in order to avoid the problematic claim that a …Read more
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613Hegel and the Divinity of Light in Zoroastrianism and Islamic PhenomenologyThe Classical Bulletin 82 (2): 227-246. 2007.
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532Experience and the Space of ReasonsSophia Perennis 17 (37): 5-35. 2020.Throughout their writings, John McDowell and Richard Rorty draw on Kant’s influential account of experience. For Rorty, Kant is the antagonist who succumbs to foundationalism or what Sellars calls the Myth of the Given and Wittgenstein is the hero who helps in overcoming the siren call of the Myth. McDowell, however, is ambivalent toward Kant. With Sellars, he applauds Kant as the hero who helped us vanquish the Myth of the Given. But he argues that Kant failed to recognize the full strength of …Read more
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20Reason Unbound: On Spiritual Practice in Islamic Peripatetic PhilosophySUNY Press. 2011.This intriguing work offers a new perspective on Islamic Peripatetic philosophy, critiquing modern receptions of such thought and highlighting the contribution it can make to contemporary Western philosophy. Mohammad Azadpur focuses on the thought of Alfarabi and Avicenna, who, like ancient Greek philosophers and some of their successors, viewed philosophy as a series of spiritual exercises. However, Muslim Peripatetics differed from their Greek counterparts in assigning importance to prophecy. …Read more
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17Analytic Philosophy and Avicenna: Knowing the UnknownRoutledge. 2020.This work engages in a constructive, yet subtle, dialogue with the nuanced accounts of sensory intentionality and empirical knowledge offered by the Islamic philosopher Avicenna. This discourse has two main objectives: (1) providing an interpretation of Avicenna’s epistemology that avoids reading him as a precursor to British empiricists or as a full-fledged emanatist and (2) bringing light to the importance of Avicenna’s account of experience to relevant contemporary Anglo-American discussions …Read more
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330Unveiling the Hidden: On the Meditations of Descartes & al-GhazzaliIn Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (ed.), The Passions of the Soul: A Dialogue Between Phenomenology and Islamic Philosophy, Kluwer. pp. 219-240. 2003.
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Experience Conceptualized: Between the Myth of the Given and CoherentismDissertation, University of Virginia. 1999.My dissertation develops and defends a theory of how experience justifies perceptual beliefs. First, I situate the opposition, the coherentists, in the contemporary debate, and I do this partly by reference to their readings of Kant. According to the coherentists, perceptual beliefs can be justified only by other beliefs. They consider Kant as a predecessor who, in one way or another, did not quite succeed in freeing himself from the notion that perceptual beliefs are justified by our experience…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Arabic and Islamic Philosophy |
Virtue Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Intentionality |
The Nature of Contents |
Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Martin Heidegger |
Michel Foucault |