The World Congress Of Mulla Sadra
1999-Tehran
Comparative
Philosophy |
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Chair:
A.Shariatmadari |
Vice-Chair:
R.Guerrero & E.Wolf-Gazo |
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TIME |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
15:00
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M.
Khamenei |
The Spirit of
Plato in Sadra's Philosophy |
15:30
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W. Chittick
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The Practice of
Philosophy in Baba Afdal and Mulla Sadra |
16:00
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H. Ziai
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Sadr
al-Muta'allihin and the Question of Knowing and Being
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16:30
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Ter Haar
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Saint Anselm of
Canterbury and Mulla Sadra |
17:00
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Break
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17:30
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D. Dakake
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Sadr al Din
al-Shirazi and Benedict Spinoza: An Epistemological and Ontological
Comparison |
18:00
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G.
Kaka'i |
The Unity of
Being and Its Philosophical Demonstrability in Ibn Arabi and Mulla
Sadra |
18:30
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Ma Ping
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Sa'di's
Golestan and its Influence on Chinese Muslims
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19:00
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M. Dehbashi
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Mulla Sadra's
Systematic Ontology and its Reflection in Modem Physics
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19:30
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End of Session
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General
Session |
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Chair:
Seyed.M.Khamenei |
Vice-Chair:
Gh.Reza A'awani/ W.Chittick Ahmed Ahmadi/ W.Madelung |
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Mulla Sadra and Transcendent Philosophy |
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Atomism in Early Islamic Thought and its Relation to
pre-Islamic Iranian Thinking |
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Critical Appraisal of Trans-Substantial
Motion |
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Henry Corbin's Understanding of Mulla
Sadra |
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Mulla Sadra's Explication of Farabi's First Head of the
State |
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An
Overview of Recent Western Philosophy |
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Gnosis and
Sufism |
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Chair:
F.Tabatabai |
Vice-Chair:
D.Gril & M.Hermansen |
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Issue in Western
Philosophy |
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Chair: G.
Meggle |
Vice-Chair:
S. Etemad |
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Philosophy of
Science |
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Chair: G.
Gates |
Vice-Chair:
M. Ardeshir |
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Transcendent
Philosophy of Mulla Sadra |
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Chair:
M.Mohaqqiq Damad |
Vice-Chair:
R. Davary & H. Hanafi |
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Comparative
Philosophy |
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Chair:
H.Ziai |
Vice-Chair:
Ter Haar & M.Dehbashi |
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Gnosis and
Sufism |
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Chair:
H.Nadimi |
Vice-Chair:
M.Kilic & Jianping Wang |
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TIME |
SPEAKER
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TITLE
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9:00 |
Ms. V. Hoffman
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Al-Farabi's
"True King" and Mulla Sadra's Path: Human Perfection and Divine
Action in Islamic Esoteric Traditions |
9:30 |
D. Gril
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The
Commentaries of Surah al-Fatiha and the Theory of Existence
According to Ibn 'Arabi |
10:00 |
L. Lopez-Barait
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Spanish Mysticism's Debt to Sufism: A Shared
Symbology |
10:30 |
Ding Kejia
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The Influence
of Persian Sufi Manuscripts upon Chinese Muslims
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11:00 |
Break
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11:30 |
M. Bina Motlagh
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Plato's
Philosophy of Language |
12:00 |
L. Ballanfat
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Considerations sur la
conception du coeur chez Mulla Sadra
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12:30 |
M. Fesharaki
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The Ontological
Glorification of All Beings to God from Sadra's Viewpoint as
Compared with Rumi |
13:00 |
Lunch Break
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14:30 |
N. Pourjavadi
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The
Spirituality of Hallaj and Bayazid in the Works of Mulla
Sadra |
15:00 |
Ms. Hermansen
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Mulla Sadra's Commentary of The Light Verse
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15:30 |
0. Safi
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Mulla Sadra's Synthesis of Ibn Arabi and Moulavi
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16:00 |
Dagli
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Ali and the Flourishing of Islamic Esoterism
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16:30 |
Break
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17:30 |
H. Rahim
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A Study of
Unity and Plurality in Mulla Sadra and Rumi |
18:00 |
F. Gharaie
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Ramanuja and
Mulla Sadra |
18:00 |
H. Farzam
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Some
Observation Concerning Sadrean Gnosis |
18:30 |
Abdu-Salim
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19:00 |
End of Session
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Islamic
Philosophy |
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Chair:
Kh.Baqeri |
Vice-Chair:
M.Takeshita & I.Abu Bakar |
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TIME
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SPEAKER |
TITLE |
9:00
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K. Shanechi
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Resurrection
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9:30
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W. Madelung
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The Last Phase
of the Mu'tazilla: Abu l-Husayn al-Basri and His School
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10:00
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D. Peterson
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Ascension Soteriology
and the Great Chain of Being |
10:30
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M. Suheyl Umar
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11:00
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Break
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11:30
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M. S. Khan
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The Javidan
Khirad of Miskawayh: A Persian Book on Ethics and Moral Philosophy
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12:00
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H. N. Esfahani
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A Survey of the
Ontological Proof |
12:30
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Koroglu
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Ibn Bajjahs
Political Philosophy |
13:00
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Lunch Break
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14:30
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M. J. Shari'ati
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Is Mulla Sadra
an Innovator or a Mere Compiler? |
15:00
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A. Bouhsane
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The Ideas of
Paradigm |
15:30
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Sh. A'awani
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Man's Dignity
and Worth in the Transcendent Philosophy of Shirazi
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16:00
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A. J. Delvari
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Some Salient
Features of Sadra's Philosophy as Compared with Some Recent Western
Philosophical Theories |
16:30
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Break
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17:00
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Y. Shayegan
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The Problem of
Being In Aristotle, Alexander D'ophrodise, Avicenna and Mulla Sadra
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17:30
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A. Douay
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The Philosophy
of Knowledge |
18:00
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H. Miandary
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The Theory of
Trans-substantial Motion and Its Implications for Moral Philosophy
and Ethics |
18:30
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Hakak
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A Criticism of
Hume's Theory of the Origin of Ideas from the Perspective of the
Transcendent Philosophy of Mulla Sadra |
19:00
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End of Session
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Issue in Western
Philosophy |
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Chair:
H.M.Bracken |
Vice-Chair:
A.Gheissari |
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Philosophy of
Science |
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Chair:
P.Baret |
Vice-Chair:
Y.S.Aliabadi |
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Transcendent
Philosophy of Mulla Sadra |
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Chair: Dr.
I.Dinani |
Vice-Chair:
A.Beheshti & J.Morris |
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TIME |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
9:00
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M.
M. Damad
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The
First Mover According to Aristotle and Mulla Sadra
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9:30
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Y.
Michot
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Love
of God in the al-Mabda' wal-Ma'ad of Mulla Sadra
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10:00
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K.
Mojtahedi
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Mulla Sadra: Symbol of Cultural Unification of Iran
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10:30
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C.
Bonmariage
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The
Concept of the Analogical Gradation of Being in Mulla Sadra's
Philosophy
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11:00
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Break
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11:30
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K.
Kharrazi
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Mulla Sadra's Theory Concerning the Relationship Between Mind
and Body and its Implications in Philosophy
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12:00
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J.Janssens
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12:30
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P.
Morewedge
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Logical and Ontological Options for Philosophical Analysis of
Existence
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13:00
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Break
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14.30
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A.
Acikgence
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Sadra's Philosophical System as a Model in Islamic
Philosophy
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15:00
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M.A.
Eje'ie
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The
Problem of Individuation in the Philosophy of Mulla Sadra
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16:00
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0.
J. Stewart
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A
Critique of Traditionalism
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16:30 |
Break
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16:30
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J.
M. Vilchez
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The
Human Soul, an Itinerant Towards God: The Nature of Human Soul and
its Faculties According to Mulla Sadra
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17:00
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M.
Saleh
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An
Analysis of Mulla Sadra's Commentary on the Verse of Light
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17:30
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H.
Hanafi
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From
Transcendent Philosophy to 'Intranscendent' Philosophy
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18:00
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M.
Faghfoori
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Sadr
al-Din Shirazi in the Context of Safavid History
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18:30
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A.
Shirvani
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Epistemology and the Transcendent Philosophy of Mulla
Sadra
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19:00 |
End
of Session
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Comparative
Philosophy |
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Chair: H.
Masumi Hamadani |
Vice-Chair:
H. Daiber & M.Navali |
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TIME
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SPEAKER |
TITLE |
9:00
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A. Gheissari
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The Reception
of Continental Philosophy in Iran |
9:30
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E. M.
Macierowski |
The Unity of
Being and Essence in God: Ibn Sina, St Thomas Aquinas, and Mulla
Sadra |
10:00
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A. Smirnov
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Zeno's Aporias and Kalam: A Comparative Logical Study
and its Implications for the Notion of Rationality
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10:30
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C. Wilson
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Knowledge and Immortality in Spinoza and Mulla Sadra
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11:00
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Reception
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11:30
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A. Shahroudi
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The Synthetic
Notion of Substance and a Criticism of Einstein's Theory of
Relativity |
12:00
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K. Kachia
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Iran in
Medieval Georgian Philosophy of History and Literature
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12:30
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D. M. Yun
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The Expansion
of Iranian Islamic Philosophical Thought in the East and its
Expansion in China |
13:00
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Lunch
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14:30
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E. bin Hasan
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Philosophical
Antinomies and an Islamic Response |
15:00
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A. al-Rahim
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The Logic of
Mulla Sadra: Al Luma'atul Mashriqiyyah |
15:30
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J. F. Ferrer
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Man According
to Mulla Sadra and Ibn Babuye |
16:00
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D. Urvoy
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Le
Rapport Entre Essence |
16:30
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Break
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17:00
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Yu Zhengui
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Mulla Sadra And Wang Daiyu: |
17:30
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N. H. M.
Abubakar |
Mulla Sadra's Theory of the Soul in the Context of
Aristotelian Thought |
18:00
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T. Kermani
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Mulla Sadra and
the Stages of Divine Unification |
18:30
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M. Sanei
Darebidi |
The
Philosophical Maxim of the "Most Simple Nature in Sadra's Theology
as Compared with Leibniz's Monadology |
19:00
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End of Session
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Gnosis and
Sufism |
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Chair:
A.Sheikh al-Islam |
Vice-Chair:
L.Ballanfat & R.Shah-Kazemi |
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Islamic
Philosophy |
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Chair: Y.
Shayegan |
Vice-Chair:
D.Peterson & S.Schmidtke |
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TIME
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SPEAKER |
TITLE |
9:00
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M. Amin Razavi
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Ibn Sina's
Theory of Knowledge by Presence 'Ilm Huzuri |
9:30
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T. Mayer
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An Evaluation of Sina's Argument For God's Existence in
the Metaphysics of the Isharat |
10.00
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J.Lomba
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Ibn Bayya:
Intellect and Gnosis |
10:30
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B. Alizadeh
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An Inquiry
Concerning Sadra's Theory of Knowledge |
11:00
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Break
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11:30
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A. Sulaimanov
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Ibn Sina's
al-Hikmah al-Mashriqiyyah |
12:00
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M. Gharavian
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Is
Trans-substantial Motion Analogical or Not? |
12:30
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B. Ahmad
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Mulla Sadra's
Views on Life After Death |
13:00
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Lunch Break
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14:30
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M.T. Fa'ali
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"Concept and
Judgement", with Special Emphasis on Mulla Sadra
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15:00
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A. Syed
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Sadra and his
Philosophical Asfar |
15:30
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A Dawani
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An Overview of
Mulla Sadra's Life |
16:00
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Y. Pochta
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The Image of Islamic Society in Western History and
Russian Philosophy |
16:30
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Break
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17:00
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A. Imami
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The Problem of
Resurrection in Ibn Mushkuyah Razi and Sadr al-Muta'allihin
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17:30
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A. M. Kazemi
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Mulla Sadra on Ilm and the Ulama
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18:00
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A. Shirvani
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Epistemology
and the Transcendent Philosophy of Mulla Sadra
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18:30
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M. Hussain Yad
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The
Characteristics of Mulla Sadra's Ontology |
19:00
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End of Session
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| |
Issue in Western
Philosophy |
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Chair: Dr.
A'awani |
Vice-Chair:
B.Davary |
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Logic, Language
Philosophy of Mind |
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Chair:
T.Hondrich |
Vice-Chair:
H.Vahid |
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Transcendent
Philosophy of Mulla Sadra |
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Chair:
M.A.Eje'ie |
Vice-Chair:
Sh.A'awani & Y.Michot |
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TIME
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SPEAKER
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TITLE
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9:00 |
R.
Ostadi
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Responses to Ten Questions Regarding Mulla Sadra's Commentary
on the Usul al-kafi
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9:30 |
L.
Peerwani
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Mulla Sadra Shirazi on the Hermeneutics of the Qur'an
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10:00 |
Y.
Yathrebi
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The
Analysis and Evaluation of Sadra's Views on the Primacy of
Being
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10:30 |
J.
Walbridge
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Mulla Sadra on the Platonic Forms
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11:00 |
Break
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11:30 |
R.
Golpayegani
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Mulla Sadra and the Temporal Origination of the World
|
12:00 |
M.
Dakake
|
The
Pre-Existence of Souls in Shi'ite Tradition and in the Philosophy of
Mulla Sadra
|
12:30 |
A.
Shakeeba
|
The
Reality of the Human Soul According to Mulla Sadra
|
13:00 |
Break
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14:30 |
S.
Rizvi
|
Essential Accidents, Complete Syllogisms and the
Possibility of Knowledge: Mulla Sadra's Definition of
Metaphysics
|
15:00 |
8,
Oudeimah |
Mulla Sadra on Reincarnation
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15:30
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S.
al-Bodur
|
The
Problem of Existence in Mulla Sadra's Thought
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16:00
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Shigeru Kamada
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Time and Space in Mulla Sadra's Mystical Thought
through His Reference to Ushnuhi
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16:30
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Break
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17:00
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K.
D. Crow
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Mulla Sadra's Sharh of al-Sadiq's Hadith al-'Aql We
i-Jani
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17:30
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M.
Legenhausen
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Ontological Proof in Avicenna, Mulla Sadra and Western
Philosophers
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18:00
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H.
Parsania
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The
Foundation and Historical Development of the Ontological
Proof
|
18:30 |
D.
J. Ranjin
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Mulla Sadra on Nature
|
19:00 |
End
of Session
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| |
Comparative
Philosophy |
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Chair:
W.Chittick |
Vice-Chair:
Q.Kakai & M.Macierowsky |
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TIME
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SPEAKER |
TITLE |
9:00
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H. Masumi
Hamadani |
The Theory of
Vision in Mulla Sadra's Philosophy |
9:30
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Ms. L. Erickson
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The Influence of Zoroastrianism on Judaism and Early
Christianity |
10:00
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E. Wolf-Gazo
|
Trans-substantial Motion in Whitehead and Mulla Sadra's
Thought |
10:30
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M. Mesbahi
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The Problem of
Essence, Existence, and Unity According to Averroes and Mulla Sadra
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11:00
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Break
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11:30
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U. Benissa
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Mulla Sadra's
Precursors in Philosophy |
12:00
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N. Robinson
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From Marxism to Islam: The Philosophical Itinerary of
Roger Garaudy |
12:30
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S. Pazouki
|
A Comparative
Study of Suhrawardi's and Heidegger's Interpretations of the Ancient
Greek Philosophers |
13:00
|
Lunch Break
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14:30
|
T. Jaffer
|
The Interior
Drama of the Soul: The Metaphysics of Imagination and Prophetic Act
in Avicenna and Mulla Sadra |
16:00
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A.
Shari'atmadari |
A Comparative
Study of Mulla Sadra and Joan Piaget Regarding Certain Issues in
Psychology |
15:30
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Z. Moris
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Mulla Sadra and Hamza Fansuri: A Comparative Study of
Some Aspects of Their Metaphysical Teachings
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16:00
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C. Segovia
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Mulla Sadra's
Onto-henology and the Western Contemporary Debate on Nihilism
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16:30
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Break
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17:00
|
Hu Zhong
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The Impact of
the Persian Illuminationist School in Chinese Islamic Works of the
17th Century |
17:30
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W. al-Rahman
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The Essence-Existence Distinction in Mulla Sadra and
Modern Western Existentialism: A Comparative Study
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18:00
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M. Rafique
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Mulla Sadra and Sri Aurobindo: A Comparative Study
|
18:30
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A. Riahi
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The
Immateriality of the Soul According to Three Muslim Sages (Farabi,
Avicenna, and Mulla Sadra) |
19:00
|
End of Session
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| |
Issues in Western
Philosophy |
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Chair:
- |
Vice-Chair:
- |
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TIME
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CHAIR
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TITLE
|
9:00 |
D. Ihde
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Panel
Discussion: Hermeneutics |
11:00 |
Break
|
|
11:30 |
L. Stevenson
|
Panel
Discussion: Issues in the History of Philosophy
|
12:50 |
Lunch Break
|
|
14:30 |
L. Honnefelder
|
Panel
Discussion: Ethics and Moral Philosophy |
16:30 |
Break and End
of Session |
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Islamic
Philosophy |
|
Chair:
M.Aminrazavi |
Vice-Chair:
T.Mayar & M.Suheyl Umar |
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TIME
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SPEAKER |
TITLE |
9:00
|
B. Karliga
|
Mulla Sadra's
Commentary on the Hedayat al-Hikmah and Its Influence on Ottoman
Thought |
9:30
|
A. Z.
Gharagozlou |
A Cursory
Glance at the Criticisms Levelled against Mulla Sadra During the
Past Four Centuries - |
10.00
|
A. A'lami
|
Mulla Sadra of
Shiraz and Abul-Qasim al-Jubbai |
10:30
|
M. Palangi
|
The Elements of
Sadra's Theory of Trans-substantial Motion in Plaids Philosophy
|
11:00
|
Break
|
|
11:30
|
S. M. Murshan
|
The Relation
between Religion and Philosophy in Ibn Sina with Reference to the
Characteristics Of Gods Knowledge |
12:00
|
A. Taremi
|
The "Four
Intellectual Journeys" In Mulla Sadra and his Predecessors
|
12:30
|
Abdul Sattar
|
The Impact of Islamic Morals on the Hindu-Muslim
Culture of the Indian Subcontinent |
13:00
|
Lunch Break
|
|
14:30
|
R. S. Hishmat
|
The Notion of
Demonstration in Ibn-Khaldon's Science of Imran
|
15:00
|
A Aries
|
The
Phenomenology of Dialogue |
15:30
|
J. Lameer
|
Tasawwur and
Tasdiq in Sadr al-Din Shirazi and Farabi |
16:00
|
M. R. Hejazi
|
The Element of
Love in Sadra's Moral Philosophy and its Centrality in the
Collective Body of Moral Virtues |
16:30
|
Break
|
|
17:00
|
A. Zamani
|
Eschatology
According to Mulla Sadra |
17:30
|
T. Albertini
|
Doubt and Certainty in Ghazzali and Descartes
|
18:00
|
A. Karbasizadeh
|
Agha Muhammad
Bidabadi: A Renovator of the Sadrian Transcendent Philosophy
|
18:30
|
H.R. Nazari
|
From
Philosophical Hermeneutics to the Ontological Wisdom of the Sage of
Shiraz |
19:00
|
End of Session
|
| |
Logic, Language
and Philosophy of Mind |
|
Chair: E.Van
Gelderen |
Vice-Chair:
Z.Movahed |
|
TIME
|
SPEAKER
|
TITLE
|
9:00 |
T. Hondrich
|
Consciousness as Existence Again
|
9:40 |
H. Vahid
|
Charity,
Supervenience and Scepticism |
10:20 |
D.
Follesdal |
Meaning and
Perception |
11:00 |
Break
|
|
11:30 |
T. Hondrich
|
Panel
Discussion: Current Issues in Philosophy of Mind
|
12:50 |
Lunch Break
|
|
14:30 |
S. G. Williams
|
Panel
Discussion: Current Issues in Philosophy of Logic and Language
|
16:30 |
Break
|
|
|
WORK IN
PROGRESS |
|
17:00 |
M. Nasrin
|
On
Functionalists' Criticisms of Physicalism |
17:30 |
M. Izadi
|
Verisimilitude:
A Qualitative Comparison Between Oddie's and Niiniluoto's Views
| |
Transcendent
Philosophy of Mulla Sadra |
|
Chair:
Gh.A'awani |
Vice-Chair:
P.Morowedge & O.Leaman |
|
TIME |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
9:00 |
A. Sadeghi
Rashad |
Neo-Sadrian
Philosophical Dialogue |
9:30 |
M. Ayoub
|
|
10:00 |
M. Khonsari
|
An Overview of
Mulla Sadra's Gnosis Based on His Treatise "Iqaz an-Na'imin'
|
10:30 |
S. A. Husseini
Qa'im |
lbn Arabi and
Mulla Sadra on Everlasting Punishment |
11:00 |
Break
|
|
11:30 |
M. R. Hakimi
|
Corporeal
Resurrection in the Transcendent Philosophy of Mulla Sadra
|
12:00 |
S. McCarron
|
Shuhud,
Mahiyyat and 'Ilm: The Question of
Witnessing, Quiddity and Knowledge in Mulla Sadra and Sufism with
Special Reference to Existential Monism (wahdat
al-wujud) |
12:30 |
H. Shahpari
|
A
Meta-Cognitive Socio-Cultural Interpretation of Sadra's Paradigm of
Psychology |
13:00 |
Lunch Break
|
.
|
15:00 |
Yousef Sani
|
Primacy of
Being and the Problem of the Natural Universal
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15:30 |
A. Keeler
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Mulla Sadra's
Commentary of Surat al-Sajda |
16:00 |
M.
Khatami |
The
Transcendent Method: A Reconstruction |
16:30 |
Break
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17:00 |
M. Mohammadi
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The Status of
the Sempiternal Origination of the World and Substantial Motion in
Two Divergent Philosophical Systems |
17:30 |
S. Rahimian
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The
Characteristics of the Theory of Emanation and Ontological Causation
in Sadra's Transcendent Philosophy |
18:00 |
H. Marazi
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The Philosophy
of Mulla Sadra with Special Reference to the Eschatology of Ibn Sina
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18:30 |
S. H. Mousavian
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Temporal
Origination of the World in the Light of Sadra's Theory of
Trans-substantial Motion |
19:00 |
End of Session
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Thursday, MAY 27, 1999 |
CLOSING
SESSION: GENERAL MEETING |
Chair: Seyyed Muhammad Khamenei |
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Announcement of the programm |
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Recitation of some verses of the Holy
Qur'an |
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Speech by one one of the scientific and cultural officials of
the country |
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Final report on the achievement of the scientific
groups |
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Recitation of the concluding scientific
communique |
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End of the First World Congress on Mulla Sadra (Hakim Sadr
ad'din Muhammad
Shirazi) | |
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