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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Tomorrow is the first global philosophy group event of the academic year at Toronto. Daniel Nolan will give us a talk on Zoroastrian philosophy. Come in person if you’re in Toronto. For those living in inferior cities, here is a Zoom registration link: philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/an-unu...
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An Unusual Zoroastrian Solution to the Problem of Evil - Department of Philosophy
Speaker: Daniel Nolan (UC, Santa Cruz) The ‘Olamā-ye Eslām is a Zoroastrian apologetic work, perhaps from the thirteenth century CE. This paper argues that it contains a distinctive response to the pr...
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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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
In this paper, I offer a modern adaptation of a theory of imagination that we can find in the writings of Shihāb al-Dīn Suhrawardī (1154–1191) and his followers in the Ishrāqī tradition (‘illuminationism’). I turn to this philosophical tradition because it offers a rare historical example of a type of theory that treats imagination as a primary source of knowledge. That is, on the Ishrāqī account, even an ideal human knower must know certain things via imagination. What I offer is a ‘modern adaptation’ of the theory in that I try to extract the theory of imagination from the cosmological and theological framework of the Ishrāqī thought. The resulting theory is still Ishrāqī in that it relies on a unique form of Platonism about knowledge that, I suggest, we can find in Suhrawardī’s writings. Finally, I discuss how the reconstructed Ishrāqī conception of imaginative knowledge is especially appealing as a theory of moral knowledge.
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Global Philosophy Conversations: Bachir Diagne. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Global Philosophy Conversations: Bachir Diagne. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I reviewed Sophia Vasalou's book on al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness for Mind philpapers.org/rec/HADAAT-4
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Reza Hadisi, Al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness - PhilPapers
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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...
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Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Sayeh Meisami, Dayton) - Department of Philosophy
Sayeh Meisami (Dayton) specializes in the fields philosophy and religion, with many interdisciplinary interests.
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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...
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Canadian Academics Call to End State Violence in Iran
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Global Philosophy at UofT @globalphilosophy.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
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)
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Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Marcus Schmücker, Austrian Academy of Sciences) - Department of Philosophy
Marcus Schmücker (Austrian Academy of Sciences) does interdisciplinary work in theology and philosophy.
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Extending New Narratives @ennhistphil.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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
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Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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...
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Philosophy
[The Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy](https://www.jyu.fi/en/humsoc/yfi) is seeking to recruit a Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy for a 3-year fixed-term contract. The contract begins...
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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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.
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Counting the murdered Arab adults doesn't do it for some people. Here is a list of the children.
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Lol
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Ha, thanks! I did one round of proofreading. Surprised that I missed that :)
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Thanks! There certainly are some connections to modal epistemology in the text. However, I didn't go into the details here. Already pretty long 😁
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
(Started writing this 6 years ago. So you might have helped me in one way or another and I forgot to thank you in the acknowledgments -- sorry!)
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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
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Reza Hadisi, Imagination and Its Object: Recovering Suhrawardī’s Suspended Images - PhilPapers
What would a theory look like if it treated imagination as a primary source of knowledge? To explore this question, I turn to the 12th-century Persian philosopher Suhrawardī, who argues that ...
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U of T Centre for Medieval Studies @uoftcms.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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...
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2025 Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy - Department of Philosophy
Join us for a two-day colloquium comprising talks and workshops in ancient and medieval philosophy.
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
This weekend in Toronto: philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/toront...
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2025 Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy - Department of Philosophy
Join us for a two-day colloquium comprising talks and workshops in ancient and medieval philosophy.
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Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
New arrival: Final installment of my trilogy on the ripple effects of American pragmatism.
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Looks very promising!
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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 31/07/2025
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"
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Philosophers Petition APA to Issue Statement on Gaza - Daily Nous
"We, the undersigned members of the APA and the wider philosophical community, write to express our dismay and deep disappointment regarding the APA's conspicuous silence concerning the genocide unfol...
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Ian Phillips @ianbphillips.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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...
Book cover image showing a tree growing out of a white boatBook contents page
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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
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
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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...
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Other Epistemic Achievements
Various philosophical traditions, east and west, offer rich and alternative ways of theorizing about varieties of epistemic achievements and virtues. To explore this approach, we aim to bring experts...
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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...
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Karl Ameriks (1947-2025) - Daily Nous
Karl Ameriks, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, has died. Professor Ameriks was well-known for his work on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, German Idealism, the history...
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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...
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Research Associate/Postdoc (f/m/x) for 3 years at the ERC-Project “Avicenna Live: The Immediate Context of Avicenna’s Intellectual Formation”
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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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
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Other Epistemic Achievements
Various philosophical traditions, east and west, offer rich and alternative ways of theorizing about varieties of epistemic achievements and virtues. To explore this approach, we aim to bring experts...
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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...
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Oh thanks, Elisa! I'm glad you kept thinking about imaginary objects but sorry to take away from your break! :)
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CMA: Islamic Art @cmaislamic.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Qualities of Ringdoves (recto) from a Manafi' al-Hayawan (On the Usefulness of Animals) of Ibn Bakhtishu' (d. 1058) clevelandart.org/art/1945.382.a
This small illustration of ringdoves in the tree trunk and lotus blossom incorporates the influence of Chinese naturalism. In contrast, the reverse side is more traditional. The innovative page layouts feature cursive <em>nashki</em> script with bold angular <em>kufic</em> script headings. Derived from Aristotelian sources, this treatise deals with the physical characteristics and organs of animals. The text was translated into Persian from Arabic for the Ilkhanid ruler Ghazan Khan (reigned 1295–1304). Roughly a dozen pages from this long-lost manuscript are known. It is dated by comparison with a similar manuscript made at Maragha, near Tabriz, in 1297 or 1299.
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Happy Nowruz, the new year as intended by nature and pure reason!
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
today!
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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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)
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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...
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Other Epistemic Achievements
Various philosophical traditions, east and west, offer rich and alternative ways of theorizing about varieties of epistemic achievements and virtues. To explore this approach, we aim to bring experts...
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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...
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Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Kara Richardson, Syracuse) - Department of Philosophy
Kara Richardson (Syracuse) works primarily in the history of philosophy.
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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!
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The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12–13th Centuries
"The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12–13th Centuries" published on 27 Jan 2025 by Brill.
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Oh no! Sorry to hear that!
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The Musk test.
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Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
More than 300 medieval manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Vossiana now available in open access - Leiden University 📜 www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/01...
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More than 300 medieval manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Vossiana now available in open access - Leiden University
The most important group of medieval manuscripts from the Special Collections of the University Libraries of Leiden (UBL), the Codices Vossiani Latini, is now available in open access via the Digital ...
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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
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):
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
We just had to change the room to another building. I'll see if the new room has the proper equipment. I'll make an announcement if we can make it available online, and I'll let you know
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clinton tolley @clintontolley.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
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...
other epistemic achievements conf main page may 2-4 2025 torontoOther Epistemic Achievements
Various philosophical traditions, east and west, offer rich and alternative ways of theorizing about varieties of epistemic achievements and virtues.
To explore this approach, we aim to bring experts and scholars from ten different traditions in
conversation with each other and contemporary epistemologists. These will include some of the perspectives from the Africana, Arabic, Chinese, Early Modern European, Greek, Indigenous Andean, Jewish, Latin American, Medieval Latin, and South Asian traditions.dancing figure with dog= Other Epistemic Achievements
Lea Cantor (Cambridge)
Strategies for expressing skepticism in the Zhuangzi
Zeyad El Nabolsy (York University)
Participation as an Epistemic Achievement in African Philosophy
Maria Heim (Amherst College)
'Some hold back and some overreach; only those with eyes see':
Buddhaghosa on learning how to see
Jari Kaukua (University of Jyväskylä)
Between Epistemic Optimism and Pessimism: Before and after Avicenna
Tamer Nawar (Barcelona)
The Epistemic Implications of Divine Omniscience and Foreknowledge
Yitzhak Melamed (Hopkins)
The Apikorsut of the Void: A Heresy beyond All Heresies
Jessica Moss (NYU)
Aristotle on Knowledge and Understanding
Kristin Primus (Berkeley)
Our Knowledge of Thought
Jorge H. Sanchez-Perez (Alberta)
The Harmony of Reality and the Duties of Knowledge: Epistemic Humility and Moral Obligations
Clinton Tolley (UC San Diego)
'in xóchitl in cuícatl': Flower, song, and the ('Romantic') elevation of the aesthetic dimension of truth and knowledge in ancient and modern Mexican philosophy
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
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!
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Other Epistemic Achievements
Various philosophical traditions, east and west, offer rich and alternative ways of theorizing about varieties of epistemic achievements and virtues. To explore this approach, we aim to bring experts...
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
"Please submit your corrections within 2 working days" and happy holidays?
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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Some open access publications from Tübingen's project on Aristotle's science of living things: #philsky #aristotle #openaccess www.tida.uni-tuebingen.de/publications...
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TIDA | Universität Tübingen
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
But probably, by the history of cog sci, you meant something a little more recent 😁
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
... because it knows the universals. There's then the assumption that the universal is "higher" because it has more explanatory power, and from that you get a hierarchy of faculties based on the object of knowledge proper to each faculty.
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Reza Hadisi @rezahadisi.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Many in the Arabic tradition make this kind of hierarchy in terms of the object knowledge. Perception is "lower" because via it you know the particulars. Imagination is "higher" in that it knows the particular under some generalized aspects. The intellect is the highest human faculty ...
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