New article: Reza Hadisi “Imagination and Its Object: Recovering Suhrawardī’s Suspended Images”, Philosophers' Imprint 26: 22. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim... Abstract in alt text. #philsky

Check out the Exeter Global Philosophy online talk series: Their next event is with Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia/Paris), on Tuesday June 2nd, 12pm EST. To register for this event, click on this link: universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I reviewed Sophia Vasalou's book on al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness for Mind philpapers.org/rec/HADAAT-4

We're back at @globalphilosophy.bsky.social this Thursday, with a talk on Rumi, Heidegger, and poetic thinking by Sayeh Meisami philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global...

Here’s a petition from academics and the healthcare community in Canada, calling on the Canadian government to use legal mechanisms to put pressure on the Islamic Republic. I signed. Please consider signing. www.change.org/p/canadian-a...

Join us today, 3 to 5pm (Toronto) for a talk by Marcus Schmücker on ontology, self and God in Sanskrit philosophy: philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global... (zoom link available)

Check out this new open access journal! journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/nn... It has taken a long time to bring into being, but it has some excellent articles, some original new translations, along with interesting discussions of those translations. #philsky

Great post-doc and funded doctorate opportunities to work on Ishrāqī philosophy with Jari Kaukua: Postdoc: ats.talentadore.com/apply/postdo... Doctoral student: ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor...

Just put up this blog post in which I defend the use of the term "philosophy" to describe non-European intellectual traditions. www.historyofphilosophy.net/philosophy-w... #philsky #philosophy #globalphilosophy

Excited to have @thisishannahkim.bsky.social at our next Global Philosophy Series talk. This is a hybrid event; Zoom details are available in the link.

Counting the murdered Arab adults doesn't do it for some people. Here is a list of the children.

I have a forthcoming paper in Phil Imprint! It's an attempt to reconstruct Suhrawardī’s theory of imagination. Please admire the insane Figure 1 (it took me hours!!). philpapers.org/rec/HADIAI

Please join us for the 2025 edition of the Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy this Friday / Saturday, September 19-20! philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/toront...

This weekend in Toronto: philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/toront...

New arrival: Final installment of my trilogy on the ripple effects of American pragmatism.

Looks very promising!

Philosophers are petitioning the APA to issue a statement to "condemn the ongoing atrocities and war crimes against Palestinians" and "express solidarity with Palestinian scholars, intellectuals, and students"

Delighted to be the opening chapter of this brilliantly conceived (and beautifully covered!) new interdisciplinary collection on Space, Time, and Memory edited by the wonderful Lynn Nadel and Sara Aronowitz. Even better, the whole thing is free to download here: library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha...

Today on #HoPWaG, Karyn and I look at religious themes in Mohism! Major themes include the rejection of fate and defense of sacrificing to ancestral spirits ("ghosts"). www.historyofphilosophy.net/mohism-relig... #mohism #chinesephilosophy #philsky

If you're in Toronto today and hate the sunshine, come see scholars working on ten different philosophical traditions talking about epistemic achievements! sites.google.com/view/globalp...

He was a great philosopher, but also kind and funny. At one of my first conferences as a grad student, he came and sat with me for lunch, opening with: "I'm here for the free food. How about you?" dailynous.com/2025/04/29/k...

3-year postdoc on Avicena. The position is part of the ERC project “Avicenna Live: The Immediate Context of Avicenna’s Intellectual Formation” (ALIVE) jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/1...

Now listening to Jennifer Komorowski on how to integrate Indigenous philosophy in one's curriculum (see the bottom left here: sites.google.com/view/globalp...) #Philosophy

BREAKING: Last night, the Harvard faculty chapter of the AAUP and the national AAUP filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump administration from illegally demanding that we keep quiet and change how we teach and research at the point of a financial gun. actionnetwork.org/user_files/u...

Qualities of Ringdoves (recto) from a Manafi' al-Hayawan (On the Usefulness of Animals) of Ibn Bakhtishu' (d. 1058) https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.382.a

Happy Nowruz, the new year as intended by nature and pure reason!

today!

Julianne Chung citing Cline 2016 on the risks of asking a non-specialist to teach Chinese philosophy (I guess that the same could apply to Sanskrit philosophy), namely that the department will then think that they don't need to hire a specialist. (And the class may end up being shallow)

Toronto philosophers! Tomorrow (Mar 18, 6-8pm), you can come to UofT, JHB 100, for our workshop on **How to integrate Chinese and Sanskrit philosophy into your teaching**. In addition to wisdom, we're serving some nice Thai food for dinner! Details here: sites.google.com/view/globalp...

Join us for a zoom talk at the Global Philosophy Research Group (@globalphilosophy.bsky.social) this Thursday, Mar20, 3-5pm EST: Kara Richardson: Avicenna on the Principle of Sufficient Reason and the “Same Cause-Same Effect” Principle Abstract & Zoom info: philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global...

OK! The world might be burning, and I'm usually too cool for this: but I'm personally excited about a boring acdemic thing!! Here is an open-access source book on post-calssical Arabic/Persian logic and epistemology Thanks to @histphilosophy.bsky.social, Fedor, Dustin, and other editors for this!

More than 300 medieval manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Vossiana now available in open access - Leiden University 📜 www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/01...

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

excited to see (& be a part of!) the lineup for the upcoming conference in toronto this may 2-4 on ‘other epistemic achievements’, co-organized by @rezahadisi.bsky.social #philsky #philosophy sites.google.com/view/globalp...

Come to our conference on Epistemic achievements and Virtues! We'll have speakers from ten different traditions (Africana, Arabic, Chinese, Early Modern European, Greek, Indigenous Andean, Jewish, Latin American, Medieval Latin, and Sanskrit). (Also, check out the local workshops!) Cool, indeed!

"Please submit your corrections within 2 working days" and happy holidays?

Some open access publications from Tübingen's project on Aristotle's science of living things: #philsky #aristotle #openaccess www.tida.uni-tuebingen.de/publications...

Brave act of civil disobedience in Iran: Parastoo Ahmadi secretly performed a concert in a Kāravānsarā, without the compulsory hijab, singing solo as a woman. No audience could be present, but here is a link. The judiciary has announced that they will persecute her www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYca...

ICYMI: The Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy project invites proposals for papers on neglected figures or themes in the history of moral, social, and political philosophy, to be presented at at McGill University, June 6-8, 2025. www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/announcements

The latest SEP entry in the area of Animal Minds and Behavior is now out! @cameronbuckner.bsky.social on Animal Social Cognition is a great introduction to theory of mind in animals, and includes discussion of social play, culture & imitation, emotion, norms & more. #philsky #cognition

Moral psychology postdoc opportunity at the University of Toronto! Please repost, and pass on to anyone you think might be interested.

Send us our undergrads for a week long, all paid summer program ! The Center is accepting applications for the 9th annual Pittsburgh Summer Program in Philosophy of Science to undergraduate students! Read more about the program and learn how to apply using the link: ow.ly/ijEk50UbWnh

Corrupt the Youth is a wonderful organization that brings philosophy to underresourced high schools in the US. They are having a donation drive to make the program more sustainable. Please consider donating: corrupttheyouth.org/donate/

My short monograph, *Medieval Finitism*, will be published on 30 Deccember 2024.

Cool post on non-commitment in imagination by @tomerullman.bsky.social The two-level mental simulation stuff in the final paragraph was pretty interesting. I wonder if the same structure is meant to explain perceptual non-commitment.

New paper at Ergo! 😎 It's an attempt to make sense of autonomy in an Anscombe-inspired cognitivist framework. For my account, it turns out to be quite important to treat practical knowledge (and so intention) and practical understanding (and so autonomy) as graded notions.

6 years after we started, 732 pages translating philosophy from the Islamic East responding to Ibn Sina! A labor of love from myself and co-author Fedor Benevich... with two more volumes on the way. It is also available open access here: brill.com/display/titl...