By Nazif Muhtaroglu Although it is common to list several types of kalām arguments for the existence of God in the sense that they are stand-alone arguments that purport to show the existence of God individually, I will challenge this way of reading kalām texts by focusing on al-Bāqillānī’s Kitāb al-Tamhīd.[1] A close reading of…
Navigating Deep Premise Disagreement and Manifesting Truth[1] Aaron Spevack, Brandeis University / Harvard University What follows is a summary of the state of our ASIPT Working Group discussions between 2020-2021 on Epistemology and connected topics. Difference of opinion in the branch-topics of a discipline often stems from conflicting premises in the roots. Whether kalām theologians…
By Dr. Safaruk Chowdhury A Brief History If we were to give a simple description of what analytic philosophy is, then a broad one would be something like: a tradition that originated in the work of the German mathematician, logician and philosopher Gottlob Frege (1848–1925), two towering British philosophers Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) and G. E.…
By Dr. Safaruk Chowdhury In Chronological Order *Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848) Czech *Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) German Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British George Edward Moore (1873-1958) British (known as G. E. Moore) Otto Neurath (1882-1945) Austrian Moritz Schlick (1882-1936) German Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) Austrian/British Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) German/ American Hans Reichenbach (1891-1953) German/ American Gilbert Ryle (1900-1976) British…
By Dr. Safaruk Chowdhury Epistemology, Ethics, Language, Logic and Metaphysics This is a bibliography containing entries on key works in primarily 20th century analytic philosophy. The arrangement of the entries is descriptive and chronological and is restricted to only books which means articles or essays are excluded unless they reappear in the author’s book. The…
By Dr. Safaruk Chowdhury This section includes some of the major works that were published in the field of analytic philosophy. The list – arranged chronologically – is highly selective and is only for presenting a glimpse of the philosophical output. A short description of most of the titles can be found in the curated…
A Brief History If we were to give a simple description of what…
The three aims of ASIP&T (fellowship, training scholars, and verification & renewal) are meant to address five imperatives that arise from the contemporary state of scholarship in Islamic Philosophy and Theology. Before questions of the nature of consciousness or spiritual anthropology can be effectively addressed, certain questions of ultimate and metaphysical significance must be dealt…