艾哈迈德Alwishah, Associate Professor of 哲学

艾哈迈德Alwishah

Professor of 哲学


With Pitzer Since: 2009
字段组: 哲学
学校地址: 斯科特·霍尔220
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Educational Background

PhD, University of California, 洛杉矶
BA, Baghdad University

Areas of Specialization

Islamic 哲学, Medieval 哲学, 哲学 of Religion, Islamic 的ology

Areas of Competence

哲学 of Mind, 哲学 of Language, and Logic

奖学金 and Awards

  • Life Fellow at Clare Hall College, University of 剑桥, 2014
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, Introduction to the Humanities Program: Stanford University, 2008-09
  • Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, 洛杉矶, 2007-08
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS), 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001
  • 的 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Program, 2003

出版物

编辑卷

  • Illuminationist Texts and Textual Studies, co-edited with Ali Gheissari and John Walbridge, Brill, forthcoming.
  • Aristotle and Arabic Tradition, co-edited with Josh Hayes, 剑桥 University Press, 2015.
  • Refinement and Commentary of Suhrawardī’s Intimations: A Thirteenth Century Text On Natural 哲学 and Psychology, co-edited with Hossein Ziai, Mazda Publishers, 2002.

Articles in Refereed Journals

  • “Taftazānī on the Liar Paradox: Truth, Goodness, and the “Irrational Root” (al- Jadhr al-aṣamm), co-authored with David Sanson, Oxford Studies in Medieval 哲学,卷. 2017年1月4日.
  • “Avicenna on Animal Self-Awareness, Cognition and Identity,” 剑桥 Journal of Arabic Sciences and 哲学, 2016年2月.
  • “Ibn Sīnā on Floating Man Arguments,” Journal of Islamic 哲学2015年9月.
  • “的 Early Arabic Liar: 的 Liar Paradox in the Islamic World from the Mid- Ninth to the Mid-Thirteenth Centuries CE” co-authored with David Sanson, Vivarium Journal 47, 1999: 97-127.

Chapters in 编辑卷

  •  “Suhrawardī and Ibn Kammūna on the Impossibility of Having Two Necessary Existents,” in Illuminationist Texts and Textual Studies, edited by Ali Gheissari, John Walbridge, and 艾哈迈德Alwishah, Brill, forthcoming
  • “Avicenna On Self-Cognition and Self-Awareness,” in Aristotle and Arabic Tradition, edited by 艾哈迈德Alwishah with Josh Hayes, 剑桥 University Press, 2015.

翻译

  • Translation of the Arabic testimonia on Thales in Richard McKirahan, 的 爱尔兰的泰利斯. De Gruyter, 2014.

Encyclopedia Entry

  • “Ibn Kammūna Saʿd Ibn Manṣūr” an entry in 的 Biographical Encyclopaedia of Islamic 哲学, edited by Oliver Leaman. 连续2006.

工程进行中

专著

  • Avicenna’s 哲学 of Mind and Body (Oxford University Press, under review)

Presentations

  • “Doubt in Islamic 的ology and 哲学,” at Doubt and Faith in Islam and Judaism Symposium德克萨斯州A&M University, College Station, Texas, February 2, 2018.
  • “Avicenna on Animal Self-Awareness, Cognition and Identity” at 9 e colloque inter国家 de la Société Inter国家e d’Histoire des Sciences et de la Philosophie Arabes et Islamiques (S. I. H. S. P. A. I.)，巴黎大学. Paris Diderot- Paris 7, October 10, 2014.
  • “Ziai on the Distinction between Peripatetic and Illuminationist Epistemology” at 10th Biennial Iranian Studies Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 8, 2014.
  • “Divine Knowledge and Human Self-Awareness” Clare Hall Colloquium 剑桥 University, May 6, 2014
  • “Avicenna On Self-Cognition and Self-Awareness” at the conference of 英国 Association for Islamic Studies, Edinburgh, April 10, 2014.
  • “Avicenna on God’s Knowledge of the Universe and Human Cognition” at the conference of Ancient Cosmos: Concord Among Worlds, Durham University, Department of Classics and Ancient History, September, 20-22, 2013.
  • “Avicenna and the Sameness 的sis in Human and Divine Intellect” at 喜怒无常的 Conference in Medieval 哲学, UCLA, 洛杉矶, California, March 9, 2013.
  • “Dialectical Disputation in Quran” at the Conference of Contemplating the Qur’an (Tadabbur al-Qur’an), Howard University School of Divinity, March 24-25, 2013.
  • “Avicenna on Animals Self-Awareness” at the 30th annual joint meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek 哲学 (SAGP) with the Society for the Study of Islamic 哲学 and Science (SSIPS), Fordham University, October 20, 2012.
  • Dialectical Disputation in Quran and the Greek Logic” at 古代晚期, 中世纪, and the Early Modern Period: an Intramural Symposium for the Claremont Colleges2012年3月9日.
  • “Avicenna and Hume on Self-Knowledge” at the 29th annual joint meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek 哲学 (SAGP) with the Society for the Study of Islamic 哲学 and Science (SSIPS), Fordham University, October 23, 2011.
  • “Avicenna on Human Existence and Self-Awareness,” paper presented at the Inter国家 Colloquium of the SIHSPAI: 哲学 and Science in Classical Islamic Civilisation, 的 Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, December 4, 2010.
  • “Avicenna on Divine Self-Awareness and Human Self-Awareness” 28th annual joint meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek 哲学 (SAGP) with the Society for the Study of Islamic 哲学 (SSIPS), October 17, 2010.
  • “的 Study of Islamic 哲学 in US,” 哲学 Department, Baghdad University, 艺术学院, 伊拉克, 2010年1月.
  • “Avicenna on Mental Language” at the 27th annual joint meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek 哲学 (SAGP) with the Society for the Study of Islamic 哲学 and Science (SSIPS), Fordham University, 2009.
  • “上帝是什么?”? An Investigation of the Divine Attributes In Islamic 的ology and 哲学,” Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Stanford University, 2008.
  • “Learning in the Religious Traditions,” 荣誉项目, University of California, Riverside, 2006.
  • “Avicenna’s Concept of Intention,” 的 Inter国家 Conference on Ancient and Medieval 哲学, Fordham University, NY, 2006.
  • “Avicenna on ‘I exist’ and Self-Awareness,” 喜怒无常的 Conference in Medieval 哲学, UCLA, 洛杉矶, California, 2006.
  • “Self-Knowledge in Islamic 哲学,” 的 Human Condition Conference, Victoria University, Victoria, Canada, 2005.
  • “的 Arabic Liar Paradox,” 喜怒无常的 Conference in Medieval 哲学, UCLA, 洛杉矶, California, 2004.
  • “Avicenna and Descartes on ‘I exist.’” 的 Inter国家 Conference on Ancient and Medieval 哲学, Fordham University, NY, 2003.
  • “Avicenna on the 教师 of Representation.” 20th Annual Ancient and Medieval 哲学 Dialogue Among Civilizations Conference, Binghamton University, NY, 2001.

Service to Profession

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor of 哲学, Pitzer College, 2015-present
Assistant Professor of 哲学, Pitzer College, 2009-15

  • “Spinoza and Leibniz on Reality,” 2011年春季
  • “God and 哲学, Reason in Conflict,” Fall 2011 (with Yuval Avnur), Spring 2015
  • “伊斯兰教与. Islam,” 2010年秋季, 2014年秋季
  • “哲学 of Religion,2009年春季, 2010年秋季, 2011年春季, 2012年秋季, 2013年秋季, 2014年秋季, 2015年秋季
  • “Introduction to 哲学,” Fall 2009, 2010年秋季, 2011年春季, 2013年秋季
  • “History of Ethics,2009年春季
  • “Islamic 哲学,” Fall 2009, Fall 2011, 2012年秋季, 2013年秋季
  • “Philosophical Questions” (A First-year Seminar), 2012年秋季, 2015年秋季

Claremont Graduate University, School of Religion

  • “Ghazali: 哲学 and 的ology,” Fall 2011

Stanford University, Introduction to the Humanities

  • “Humanistic Perspectives on Science,” Winter and Spring 2009
  • “Fate of Reason,” Winter and Spring 2008

UCLA, 哲学 Department

  • “Topics in Islamic 哲学,” Spring 2004, 2007

博士建议

I have supervised two successful PhD dissertations at Claremont Graduate University, School of Religion: Sana Tayyen “Ghazali, 阿奎那, and Lita’arafu: 的 Interaction between Reason and Revelation for Interreligious Understanding,” 2014.

Ozgur Koca “Said Nursi’s Synthesis of Ashʿarite Occasionalism and Ibn ‘Arabī’s Metaphysical Cosmology: “Diagonal Occasionalism,《推荐十大正规网赌网站》, 和自由意志,” 2014.

最近的课程

  • Introduction to 哲学 (PHIL7)
  • History of Ethics (PHIL31)
  • 哲学 of Religion (PHIL52)
  • Islamic 哲学 (PHIL84)
  • God and 哲学 (PHIL96)
  • 伊斯兰教与. 伊斯兰教(PHIL155)
  • Spinoza and Leibniz on Reality (PHIL186S)
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