Behnam Zolghadr
@Behnamzsh
Research Assistant @LMU_Muenchen |Analytic Metaphysics, Logic, the history of Metaphysics and Logic in Islamic World. PI of DFG project The Logic of al-Khūnajī.
Delighted that, *Logic, Soul, and World*, the collection I co-edited (with Asad Ahmed and Riccardo Strobino) in honour of my amazing teacher, Tony Street, is now out. brill.com/display/title/…
The final manuscript is just submitted to Brill: 𝑳𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒄, 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒍, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅: 𝑬𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑨𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒄 𝑷𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝑯𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒐𝒏𝒚 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒕. Edited by Asad Q. Ahmed, Riccardo Strobino, and Mohammad Saleh Zarepour.
My paper “Avicenna and Khūnajī on de re and de dicto Modality” is now out in British Journal for the History of Philosophy. Thanks to LMU, the paper is open access. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
A great source book on Arabic logic.
The new, open access volume of the "Heirs of Avicenna" sourcebook series is out! About 600 pages of translated material on later Islamic logic and epistemology! brill.com/display/title/… All original texts for this and the first volume available at: heirsofavicenna.net
Coming soon... volume 2 of the Heirs of Avicenna! Seventeen chapters with hundreds of translated passages about logic and epistemology in the Islamic East, 12-13th centuries.
With a bit of embarrassment, I finally got the chance to read this masterpiece. This work could be a role model for the so-called “analytic Islamic philosophy “. The author knows both traditions pretty well, and the work is exceptionally clear in argumentation.
I am thrilled to announce that my short monograph, 𝑵𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑬𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒔𝒎, is now online and free to download for 2 weeks. cambridge.org/core/elements/…
Al-Hūnağī (al-Khūnajī) is arguably the most important Arabic logician after Avicenna. One of his main contributions is about arguments about impossibilities. If you are interested in his logic, take a look at my open access paper published in Inquiry: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Big news! This is a highly anticipated edition and translation of one of the most important logical textbooks of the Islamic world, by the brilliant Tony Street.
Güzel bir haber... Najm al-Dīn al-Kātibī’s al-Risālah al-Shamsiyyah An Edition and Translation with Commentary Tony Street New York University Press, 2024 nyupress.org/9781479827510/…
Anyone interested in our new "Heirs of Avicenna" book series should also check out this excellent new book from Francesco Zamboni, also from Brill. Covers many of the same figures: brill.com/display/title/…
Look what just arrived! Available in all good bookshops. (And some bad ones too.)
Online lecture course about Hinduism presented this August by Dr Ankur Barua, Senior Lecturer in Hindu Studies at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge: projectnoon.in/events/
My second appearance on @RobinsonErhardt's podcast, this time to talk about all things Neoplatonic! youtube.com/watch?v=FggUhj…
My paper ‘Ahwāl, Divine Simplicity, and Truthmakers’ is out now. In this paper, among other things, I argue that Abū Hāšim’s theory of states is a semantic theory rather than a metaphysical one. hrcak.srce.hr/en/287599
At a bookshop in Cambridge: Me: can I order a book? Cashier: Yes! What is the name of it? Me: The limited edition of one C: Ok! What is the name of the book? Me: The limited edition of one. [C stares at me …] C: I need the name of the book. Me: That was the name of the book!
This volume of new essays, now in stock, puts Heideggerian and Wittgensteinian traditions of thought in dialogue with each other and explores #Heidegger’s response to basic questions about the relationship between #logic and #metaphysics
So relieving to come across this Medieval saying (see pic below) after hours of struggling with some Medieval modal logic (though the Arabic version).
Interview about the historiography of Islamic philosophy with Nadja Germann, conducted by my colleague here in Munich, Hanif Amin Beidokhti. This series will include interviews by European and Iranian scholars working in the field. youtube.com/watch?v=xn-xYr…
The last day to register for this workshop where I talk about inferences from the impossible in the works of Arabic logicians. orient-institut.org/events/event-d…
Gluon Theory: The Unified Unifiers, by Behnam Zolghadr ojs.victoria.ac.nz/ajl/article/vi…
"How to Abū Hāšim Meinong" Behnam Zolghadr The Monist, Volume 104, Issue 3, July 2021, Pages 300–318. academic.oup.com/monist/article…