LMU Berkeley Workshop: Post-Classical Philosophy in the Islamic World
Organized by Peter Adamson and Asad Q. Ahmed
14.12.2018 – 15.12.2018
LMU Berkeley Workshop: Post-Classical Philosophy in the Islamic World
Organized by Peter Adamson and Asad Q. Ahmed
Funded by LMU-UC Berkeley Research in the Humanities
Held at the Munich School of Ancient Philosophy (Leopoldstr. 11b, 4th floor)
Friday, December 14
9:30-10:30 Hannah Erlwein: Proofs of God’s Existence in Post-Classical Islamic
Philosophy: a Reappraisal
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Hassan Rezakhany: Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī’s Solution to the Liar
Paradox and Some Comments on its Mughal and Safavid Reception
12:00-13:00 Fedor Benevich: Individuation in Post-Avicennian Philosophy
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30 Amin Ehteshami: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī on Conception and Proposition
15:30-16:30 Break
16:30-17:30 Peter Tarras: Post-Classical Philosophy in the Coptic Milieu:
al-Wajīh Yūḥannā al-Qalyūbī’s Four Investigations into Good and Evil,
Providence and Free Will
Saturday, December 15
9:30-10:30 Sarah Virgi: al-Shahrastānī on God’s knowledge
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Muhammad U. Faruque: What is it like to be a Self? Subjectivity and
Selfhood from Mullā Ṣadrā to Muḥammad Iqbāl
12:00-13:00 Hanif Amin: Avicenna and Suhrawardī on Jiha
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30 Abdurrahman Mihirig: Qushjī on Mental Existence and the
Subsistence/Existence Distinction
15:30-16:30 Break
16:30-17:30 Asad Q. Ahmed: What Was Philosophy in Muslim India in the Late
Pre-Modern Period?