weighing the merits of studying metaphysics: WIFE: "Hey Colin? Can you make dinner?" ME (reading metaphysics): "look, I'm not good with 'things,' BUT I think I know why things exist. So, I can't promise that I can make dinner but I know why dinners exist." WIFE: ... ME immediately: (making dinner)

2027 MAA Annual Meeting Call for Papers Call for Papers 102nd Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America University of Toronto 15-17 April, 2027 The 102nd Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on the campus of www.themedievalacademyblog.org/2027-maa-ann...

Lectureship in Liberal Arts and Religion/Philosophy (Teaching and Research) at the University of Leeds with scope for focus on the Islamic world www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPY440/l...

First of a series of "rules" giving advice on academic writing about history of philosophy. I'll be posting this as a series over the coming days. Hope people will find this useful and interesting! Feedback more than welcome. www.historyofphilosophy.net/rules-writin... #philsky #philosophy

I made a song, #musicsky youtube.com/shorts/hwIvf...

I'm considering whether I should start a clinic for philosophical clientelle, treating, for instance.. Law of non contradiction denial Fallacy disorders (various) Inescapable Philosophizing Syndrome Generalized Bewilderment Diction Addiction Absolute Spirit superiority complex Current clients: 0

JOB: 1–2 PhD Positions in Philosophy | Uppsala University (Sweden) www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... #philosophy #job #PhilosophySky #philsky

Have you ever wondered why water doesn't encompass the Earth entirely? In this chapter, I look at some answers from the medieval Islamic world as to why there is land elevated above water, as well as outlining Avicenna's (d. 1037) theory of the world's structure. www.academia.edu/110528755/A_...

Commercial Break Music #musicsky #electronicmusic youtube.com/shorts/3i-5_...

I am starting to think that God's existence is itself a miracle.

I am starting to think that God's existence is itself a miracle.

A medieval philosopher once wrote a simple formula that I will spend the rest of my life trying to understand if I have to. I still don't know how he arrived at this conclusion. "Existence is good." الوجود خير -Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna, d. 1037 AD)

Just made my first publication available publicly(!) My chapter examines how philosophers in the world of medieval Islam conceived of and articulated their belief that God is self-loving. www.academia.edu/116443725/Di...

The task of philosophy can't be to raise only one single question since this one question of philosophy would have to go unquestioned.

Conference of the Birds #murmuration #birds #music

One cannot stand with an oppressor and call oneself a Christian

The wisest words are usually followed by a question mark. Full stop.

The "genius" who says "I'm a genius" is not actually a genius

My new retirement plan is that the world as we know it becomes unrecognizable and retirement is no longer a thing

I used to think that any x that must be the case is inherently a good thing. After studying Avicenna's philosophy for 8+ years now I realize that there is only 1 thing that must be the case and it's not a thing.

Stand with the oppressed against the oppressor. Heal with the broken against those who seek to break you.

Committing to an act that is intrinsically good (despite the potential for experiencing pain as a result) is better than acting out of fear of something intrinsically bad (even if one avoids pain as a result). Love is a better modus operandi than fear.

I cannot stop looking at this illustration of Socrates and his students. Al-Mubashir, Turkish School, 13th century: aeon.co/ideas/arabic...

Is philosophy more like a science or more like an art? 1️⃣ Philosophy is more like a science than an art 2️⃣ Philosophy is more like an art than a science 3️⃣ Philosophy is a scientific art/an artistic science 4️⃣ Philosophy is something else entirely 📊 Show results

I'll be one of the lecturers for this online course on Islamic Philosophy in January. Register at hikmat-ins.com

Alienation of a polymath (11th c.) فيسنح له تعريج عن عالم الزور إلى عالم الحقّ مستقرّ به و يحتفّ حوله الغافلون A passage is offered to him away from the world of falsehood to the world of truth to dwell therein all the while surrounded by the ignorant around him. Avicenna

realization is a form of discovery

Creativity is the perception and enactment of aesthetic possibilities. Hearing musical possibilities precedes the act of sounding them out.

A work of art/ an aesthetic object is that which has the power to induce opposite feelings like pleasure and pain while remaining a single object.

To celebrate the fact that there exists something rather than nothing at all whatsoever makes for a good but solitary party.