The World Congress Of Mulla Sadra

 

1999-Tehran

 

 

Comparative Philosophy

Sunday, MAY 23, 1999

Chair: A.Shariatmadari

Vice-Chair: R.Guerrero & E.Wolf-Gazo

TIME

SPEAKER

TITLE

15:00

M. Khamenei

The Spirit of Plato in Sadra's Philosophy

15:30

W. Chittick

The Practice of Philosophy in Baba Afdal and Mulla Sadra

16:00

H. Ziai

Sadr al-Muta'allihin and the Question of Knowing and Being

16:30

Ter Haar

Saint Anselm of Canterbury and Mulla Sadra

17:00

Break

 

17:30

D. Dakake

Sadr al Din al-Shirazi and Benedict Spinoza: An Epistemological and Ontological Comparison

18:00

G. Kaka'i

The Unity of Being and Its Philosophical Demonstrability in Ibn Arabi and Mulla Sadra

18:30

Ma Ping

Sa'di's Golestan and its Influence on Chinese Muslims

19:00

M. Dehbashi

Mulla Sadra's Systematic Ontology and its Reflection in Modem Physics

19:30

End of Session

 

 

 

General Session

Sunday, 23 MAY 1999

Chair: Seyed.M.Khamenei

Vice-Chair: Gh.Reza A'awani/ W.Chittick Ahmed Ahmadi/ W.Madelung

 

TIME

SPEAKER

TITLE

9:00

J. Amoli

Mulla Sadra and Transcendent Philosophy

9:40

J. Van Ess

Atomism in Early Islamic Thought and its Relation to pre-Islamic Iranian Thinking

10:20

H. Hasanzadeh

Critical Appraisal of Trans-Substantial Motion

10:30

Break

 

11:00

H. Landolt

Henry Corbin's Understanding of Mulla Sadra

11:30

R.D.Ardakani

Mulla Sadra's Explication of Farabi's First Head of the State

12:00

J. Margolis

An Overview of Recent Western Philosophy

12:30

Break

 

 

 

Gnosis and Sufism

Sunday, MAY 23, 1999

Chair: F.Tabatabai

Vice-Chair: D.Gril & M.Hermansen

 

TIME

SPEAKER

TITLE

9:30

D. Buchman

Shingon Buddhism and the Sufi Dimension of Islam:
Preliminary Notes on the Shared Religious Vision of Kukai and Ibn Arabi

10:00

A. Shaykhul-islami

Existence According to Ibn Arabi and Mulla Sadra

10:30

R. Shah-kazemi

Who or What Realizes the Absolute in Mystical Realization?

11:00

Break

 

11:30

C. Janes

Dawn and Paradise in the Poetry of Some Sufis

12:00

M. Kilic

Mulla Sadra as an Arbiter between Two Muslim Mystics:
Ibn Arabi and Ala'uddoleh Semnani

12:30

E. Clark

The Art of the Islamic Prayer-Carpet: Content and Symbolism

13:00

N. Gharavi Naeeni

Mulla Sadra and Ilm al-Hadith

14:30

End of Session

 

15:00

H. Nadimi

Some Reflections on the Nature of Art

 

 

Issue in Western Philosophy

Sunday, MAY 23, 1999

Chair: G. Meggle

Vice-Chair: S. Etemad

 

TIME

SPEAKER

TITLE

15:00

A. Ahmadi

Sense Perception and its Relation to Universality and Induction

15:40

H. M. Bracken

Empiricism/ Rationalism

16:20

Gh. Haddad Adel

Ontology and Epistemology After Kant

17:00

Break

 

18:10

D. P. Lackey

The Universe as a Philosophical Concept

18:50

K. Srinivas

Wittgenstein on Religious and Scientific Beliefs

19:30

End of Session

 

 

 

Philosophy of Science

Sunday, MAY 23, 1999

Chair: G. Gates

Vice-Chair: M. Ardeshir

 

TIME

SPEAKER

TITLE

15:00

D. Ihde

Visualism in Science

15:40

L. Ropolyi

Theory as Story

16:20

R. P. Crease

What is an Artifact?

17:00

Break

 

17:30

P. Baert

Aims and Philosophy of Social Sciences

18:10

A. Paya

'Intuition": Do We Really Need It In our Knowledge-Gathering Pursuit ?

18:50

End of Session

 

 

 

Transcendent Philosophy of Mulla Sadra

Sunday, MAY 23, 1999

Chair: M.Mohaqqiq Damad

Vice-Chair: R. Davary & H. Hanafi

 

TIME

SPEAKER

TITLE

15:00

G. A'awani

The Concept and the Reality of Existence

15:30

J. Morris

Mulla Sadra's Conception of the Barzakh and the Emerging Science of Spirituality

16:00

G. Ebrahimi Dinani

The Arguments of Mulla Sadra for the Principiality of Existence

16:30

B. Kuspinar

Mulla Sadra's Commentary on the Verse of Light

17:00

Break

 

17:30

A. Beheshti

The Knowledge of the Necessary Being According to Mulla Sadra

18:00

0. Leaman

Mulla Sadra's Doctrine of Existence and the Objectivity of Imagination in Islamic Philosophy

18:30

R. Akbarian

The Existential Explication of Time in Mulla Sadra's Philosophical System

19:00

Wahidul Ansari

Ethics, Economics, and the Environmental Crisis: Philosophy of Man and Nature in the Tradition of Mulla Sadra

19:30

End of Session

 

 

 

Comparative Philosophy

Monday, MAY 24, 1999

Chair: H.Ziai

Vice-Chair: Ter Haar & M.Dehbashi

 

TIME

SPEAKER

TITLE

9:00

Z. Mostafavi

The Platonic Forms as Viewed by Mulla Sadra

9:30

D. Burrell

Thomas Aquinas and Mulla Sadra Shirazi and the Primacy of Esse/Wujud in Philosophical Theology

10:00

H. Daiber

Mulla Sadra on the Problem of Creation and the Role of Greek Philosophers

10:30

R. Guerrero

The Language of Being: From Ibn Sina to Mulla Sadra

11:00

Break

 

11:30

M. Newell

A Preliminary Comparative Study of the Ontological Methodology of Mulla Sadra and Heidegger

12:00

L. Stone

A Comparison of the Visionary Element in the Works of Attar, Suhrawardi, and Mulla Sadra

12:30

I. Kalin

Between Physics and Metaphysics: Mulla Sadra on Nature (Tabi'ah)

13:00

Lunch Break

 

14:30

Bodiur Rahman

Imam Hasan al-Basri and Mulla Sadra: A Comparative Study of their Concepts of Freedom of Choice

15:00

K. Kennedy

Ibn Sina's Influence on Mulla Sadra's Ontology

15:30

C. Sawyer

Illumination, Ancient and Modern: A Comparison of the Thought of Jacob Boehme and the School of Isfahan

l6:00

A. Qa'imi Amiri

The Foundations of Education in Islamic Philosophy and in Modern Western Education

16:30

Break

 

17:00

Li Zheng Zhong

A Comparative Study of Confucian and Islamic Philosophy

17:30

S. Murata

Islamic Thinking in Chinese

18:00

N. B. G. Qazi

Mulla Sadra's Falsafat al-Wujud and Heidegger's Seinsphilosephie

18:30

A Tourani

God in Sadra and Tillich

19:00

End of Session

 

 

 

Gnosis and Sufism

Monday, MAY 24, 1999

Chair: H.Nadimi

Vice-Chair: M.Kilic & Jianping Wang

 

TIME

SPEAKER

TITLE

9:00

Ms. V. Hoffman

Al-Farabi's "True King" and Mulla Sadra's Path: Human Perfection and Divine Action in Islamic Esoteric Traditions

9:30

D. Gril

The Commentaries of Surah al-Fatiha and the Theory of Existence According to Ibn 'Arabi

10:00

L. Lopez-Barait

Spanish Mysticism's Debt to Sufism: A Shared Symbology

10:30

Ding Kejia

The Influence of Persian Sufi Manuscripts upon Chinese Muslims

11:00

Break

11:30

M. Bina Motlagh

Plato's Philosophy of Language

12:00

L. Ballanfat

Considerations sur la conception du coeur chez Mulla Sadra

12:30

M. Fesharaki

The Ontological Glorification of All Beings to God from Sadra's Viewpoint as Compared with Rumi

13:00

Lunch Break

14:30

N. Pourjavadi

The Spirituality of Hallaj and Bayazid in the Works of Mulla Sadra

15:00

Ms. Hermansen

Mulla Sadra's Commentary of The Light Verse

15:30

0. Safi

Mulla Sadra's Synthesis of Ibn Arabi and Moulavi

16:00

Dagli

Ali and the Flourishing of Islamic Esoterism

16:30

Break

17:30

H. Rahim

A Study of Unity and Plurality in Mulla Sadra and Rumi

18:00

F. Gharaie

Ramanuja and Mulla Sadra

18:00

H. Farzam

Some Observation Concerning Sadrean Gnosis

18:30

Abdu-Salim

19:00

End of Session

 

 

Islamic Philosophy

Monday, MAY 24, 1999

Chair: Kh.Baqeri

Vice-Chair: M.Takeshita & I.Abu Bakar

 

TIME

SPEAKER

TITLE

9:00

K. Shanechi

Resurrection

9:30

W. Madelung

The Last Phase of the Mu'tazilla: Abu l-Husayn al-Basri and His School

10:00

D. Peterson

Ascension Soteriology and the Great Chain of Being

10:30

M. Suheyl Umar

 

11:00

Break

 

11:30

M. S. Khan

The Javidan Khirad of Miskawayh: A Persian Book on Ethics and Moral Philosophy

12:00

H. N. Esfahani

A Survey of the Ontological Proof

12:30

Koroglu

Ibn Bajjahs Political Philosophy

13:00

Lunch Break

 

14:30

M. J. Shari'ati

Is Mulla Sadra an Innovator or a Mere Compiler?

15:00

A. Bouhsane

The Ideas of Paradigm

15:30

Sh. A'awani

Man's Dignity and Worth in the Transcendent Philosophy of Shirazi

16:00

A. J. Delvari

Some Salient Features of Sadra's Philosophy as Compared with Some Recent Western Philosophical Theories

16:30

Break

 

17:00

Y. Shayegan

The Problem of Being In Aristotle, Alexander D'ophrodise, Avicenna and Mulla Sadra

17:30

A. Douay

The Philosophy of Knowledge

18:00

H. Miandary

The Theory of Trans-substantial Motion and Its Implications for Moral Philosophy and Ethics

18:30

Hakak

A Criticism of Hume's Theory of the Origin of Ideas from the Perspective of the Transcendent Philosophy of Mulla Sadra

19:00

End of Session

 

 

 

Issue in Western Philosophy

Monday, MAY 24, 1999

Chair: H.M.Bracken

Vice-Chair: A.Gheissari

 

TIME

SPEAKER

TITLE

9 :00

R. Arrocha

Ethics and Moral Philosophy

9:40

L. Honnefeider

Bioethics and Human Genetics: Consensus Formation in Europe

10:20

J. Dancy

Understanding Tolerance

11:00

Break

 

11:30

V. Held

Rights and the Presumption of Care

12:10

H. M. Sass

Death with Dignity: Significance of Religious Beliefs in End-of-Life Medical Decision-Making

12:50

Lunch Break

 

14:30

S. A. Schwarzenbach

Contradictions in Aristotle's Theory of the First Soul

15:10

T. 0. Zubia

Aristotelian Western Criticisms of the xxth Century: A Radical Change of Paradigm

15:50

Ms. H. Barnes

Sartre's View of Subjectivity, Consciousness, and Self: Some Philosophical and Practical Consequences

16:30

Break

 

17:00

L. Stevenson

Kant on Human Nature

17:40

W. L. McBride

Sartre's Response to Kants Question 'What May I Hope?"

18:20

M. T. Messbah Yazdi

Existence of the Copula

19:00

Break and End

 

 

 

Philosophy of Science

Monday, MAY 24, 1999

Chair: P.Baret

Vice-Chair: Y.S.Aliabadi

 

TIME

SPEAKER

TITLE

9:00

A. Cordereo

Quantum Theory and the Under Determination of Theories by Experience

9:40

G. Gates

Why Many Minds Make Bad Science

10:20

T.Shomar

Bohr and his Debate with Einstein

11:00

Break

 

11:30

1. Z. Tsekhmistro

The Problem of Quantum Correlations "Mechamism"

12:1 0

   

12:50

Lunch Break

 

14:30

D. Albert

Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and the Goals of Natural Science

15:10

D. Van Dalen

What is Mathematics ? Intuitionistic Reflections

15.50

L. Ropolyi

Panel Discussion: Current Issues in Philosophy of Science

17:00

Break

 

17:30

L. Ropolyi

Panel Discussion: Current Issues in Philosophy of Science

18:30

End of Session

 

 

 

Transcendent Philosophy of Mulla Sadra

Monday, MAY 24, 1999

Chair: Dr. I.Dinani

Vice-Chair: A.Beheshti & J.Morris

 

TIME

SPEAKER

TITLE

9:00

M. M. Damad

The First Mover According to Aristotle and Mulla Sadra

9:30

Y. Michot

Love of God in the al-Mabda' wal-Ma'ad of Mulla Sadra

10:00

K. Mojtahedi

Mulla Sadra: Symbol of Cultural Unification of Iran

10:30

C. Bonmariage

The Concept of the Analogical Gradation of Being in Mulla Sadra's Philosophy

11:00

Break

 

11:30

K. Kharrazi

Mulla Sadra's Theory Concerning the Relationship Between Mind and Body and its Implications in Philosophy

12:00

J.Janssens

 

12:30

P. Morewedge

Logical and Ontological Options for Philosophical Analysis of Existence

13:00

Break

 

14.30

A. Acikgence

Sadra's Philosophical System as a Model in Islamic Philosophy

15:00

M.A. Eje'ie

The Problem of Individuation in the Philosophy of Mulla Sadra

16:00

0. J. Stewart

A Critique of Traditionalism

16:30

Break

 

16:30

J. M. Vilchez

The Human Soul, an Itinerant Towards God: The Nature of Human Soul and its Faculties According to Mulla Sadra

17:00

M. Saleh

An Analysis of Mulla Sadra's Commentary on the Verse of Light

17:30

H. Hanafi

From Transcendent Philosophy to 'Intranscendent' Philosophy

18:00

M. Faghfoori

Sadr al-Din Shirazi in the Context of Safavid History

18:30

A. Shirvani

Epistemology and the Transcendent Philosophy of Mulla Sadra

19:00

End of Session

 

 

 

Comparative Philosophy

Tuesday, MAY 25, 1999

Chair: H. Masumi Hamadani

Vice-Chair: H. Daiber & M.Navali

 

TIME

SPEAKER

TITLE

9:00

A. Gheissari

The Reception of Continental Philosophy in Iran

9:30

E. M. Macierowski

The Unity of Being and Essence in God: Ibn Sina, St Thomas Aquinas, and Mulla Sadra

10:00

A. Smirnov

Zeno's Aporias and Kalam: A Comparative Logical Study and its Implications for the Notion of Rationality

10:30

C. Wilson

Knowledge and Immortality in Spinoza and Mulla Sadra

11:00

Reception

 

11:30

A. Shahroudi

The Synthetic Notion of Substance and a Criticism of Einstein's Theory of Relativity

12:00

K. Kachia

Iran in Medieval Georgian Philosophy of History and Literature

12:30

D. M. Yun

The Expansion of Iranian Islamic Philosophical Thought in the East and its Expansion in China

13:00

Lunch

 

14:30

E. bin Hasan

Philosophical Antinomies and an Islamic Response

15:00

A. al-Rahim

The Logic of Mulla Sadra: Al Luma'atul Mashriqiyyah

15:30

J. F. Ferrer

Man According to Mulla Sadra and Ibn Babuye

16:00

D. Urvoy

Le Rapport Entre Essence

16:30

Break

 

17:00

Yu Zhengui

Mulla Sadra And Wang Daiyu:

17:30

N. H. M. Abubakar

Mulla Sadra's Theory of the Soul in the Context of Aristotelian Thought

18:00

T. Kermani

Mulla Sadra and the Stages of Divine Unification

18:30

M. Sanei Darebidi

The Philosophical Maxim of the "Most Simple Nature in Sadra's Theology as Compared with Leibniz's Monadology

19:00

End of Session

 

 

 

Gnosis and Sufism

Tuesday, MAY 25, 1999

Chair: A.Sheikh al-Islam

Vice-Chair: L.Ballanfat & R.Shah-Kazemi

 

TIME

SPEAKER

TITLE

9:00

J. Eshots

Rationalism and Gnosticism: Reflections on the Transcendence of the Transcendent Philosophy of Mulla Sadra

9:30

P. Beneito

The Sacred Time and the Seven Days of Creation According to Ibn Arabi

10:00

Ms. S. Hirtenstein

The Maid of Fourteen

10:30

Lu Yang

Islamic Architecture in China

11:00

Break

 

11:30

A. Salim

The Impact of Islamic Mysticism on Indian Mysticism

12:00

al-Janabi

Mystical Experience: Absolute Human Experience

12:30

P. Azkaie

The Problem of Sempiternal Origination of the World According to Abu Zakariyya al-Razi

13:00

Lunch Break

 

14:30

S. Kumar

Mulla Sadra and Indian Mysticism

15:00

M. Damadi

The Main Distinctive Features of Mulla Sadra's Philosophical System

15:30

S. Baines

Symbolic Language in Sufi Thought

16:00

A. Godlas

A Comparative Analysis of Mulla Sadra's and Ruzbihan-e Baqli's Commentaries on Surat al-Hadid

16:30

Break

 

17:00

Jianping Wang

Persian Sufis' Connection with the Tariqas in Historical China

17:30

M. Boroujerdi

The Influence of the Holy Qur'an in the Making of Mulla Sadra's Transcendent Philosophy

18:00

D. V. Gordevsky

Irrationality as a Base of Rationality

18:30

End of Session

 

 

 

Islamic Philosophy

Tuesday, MAY 25, 1999

Chair: Y. Shayegan

Vice-Chair: D.Peterson & S.Schmidtke

 

TIME

SPEAKER

TITLE

9:00

M. Amin Razavi

Ibn Sina's Theory of Knowledge by Presence 'Ilm Huzuri

9:30

T. Mayer

An Evaluation of Sina's Argument For God's Existence in the Metaphysics of the Isharat

10.00

J.Lomba

Ibn Bayya: Intellect and Gnosis

10:30

B. Alizadeh

An Inquiry Concerning Sadra's Theory of Knowledge

11:00

Break

 

11:30

A. Sulaimanov

Ibn Sina's al-Hikmah al-Mashriqiyyah

12:00

M. Gharavian

Is Trans-substantial Motion Analogical or Not?

12:30

B. Ahmad

Mulla Sadra's Views on Life After Death

13:00

Lunch Break

 

14:30

M.T. Fa'ali

"Concept and Judgement", with Special Emphasis on Mulla Sadra

15:00

A. Syed

Sadra and his Philosophical Asfar

15:30

A Dawani

An Overview of Mulla Sadra's Life

16:00

Y. Pochta

The Image of Islamic Society in Western History and Russian Philosophy

16:30

Break

 

17:00

A. Imami

The Problem of Resurrection in Ibn Mushkuyah Razi and Sadr al-Muta'allihin

17:30

A. M. Kazemi

Mulla Sadra on Ilm and the Ulama

18:00

A. Shirvani

Epistemology and the Transcendent Philosophy of Mulla Sadra

18:30

M. Hussain Yad

The Characteristics of Mulla Sadra's Ontology

19:00

End of Session

 

 

 

Issue in Western Philosophy

Tuesday, MAY 25, 1999

Chair: Dr. A'awani

Vice-Chair: B.Davary

 

TIME

SPEAKER

TITLE

9:00

G. Meggle

Communication, Language and Inter-Cultural Understanding

9:40

J. M. N. Cordon

Contemporary Philosophical Hermeneutics

10:20

A. T. Tymieniecka

Phenomenology of Life: Creative Experience and the New Philosophical Paradigm

11:00

Break

 

11:30

G. F. McLean

Hermeneutics: The Living Interpretation of a Living Text in a Living Tradition

12:10

B. Davary

The Relationship Between Text and Meaning in Modern Hermeneutics

12:50

Lunch Break

 

14:30

K. Gloy Lucerne

Philosophy in 'Post-Philosophical' Times

15:10

D. Sanchez-Meca

Philosophy of Reading and Recent Issues in Contemporary Hermeneutics

15:50

P. Biswas

Rorty and Derrida on Postmodernism

16:30

Break

 

 

 

Logic, Language Philosophy of Mind

Tuesday, MAY 25, 1999

Chair: T.Hondrich

Vice-Chair: H.Vahid

 

TIME

SPEAKER

TITLE

9:00

P. Boghossian

 

9:40

P. Horwich

What is Truth?

10:20

J. Mosterin

Acceptance without Belief

11:00

Break

 

11:30

P. Milne

Is There a Logic of Confirmation Transfer

12:10

E. Van Gelderen

Syntactic Theory in a Chomskian Framework

12:50

Lunch Break

 

14:30

K. G. Havas

Do We Need to Search for the Only True World View?

15:10

P. Thom

An Avicennan Extension of Aristotle's Modal Sylogistic

15:50

S. G. Williams

Definite Descriptions and Reference

16:30

Break

 

17:00

Y. S. Aliabadi

The Sense that Presents

17:40

End of Session

 

 

 

Transcendent Philosophy of Mulla Sadra

Tuesday, MAY 25, 1999

Chair: M.A.Eje'ie

Vice-Chair: Sh.A'awani & Y.Michot

 

TIME

SPEAKER

TITLE

9:00

R. Ostadi

Responses to Ten Questions Regarding Mulla Sadra's Commentary on the Usul al-kafi

9:30

L. Peerwani

Mulla Sadra Shirazi on the Hermeneutics of the Qur'an

10:00

Y. Yathrebi

The Analysis and Evaluation of Sadra's Views on the Primacy of Being

10:30

J. Walbridge

Mulla Sadra on the Platonic Forms

11:00

Break

 

11:30

R. Golpayegani

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

 

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

15:30

S. al-Bodur

The Problem of Existence in Mulla Sadra's Thought

16:00

Shigeru Kamada

Time and Space in Mulla Sadra's Mystical Thought through His Reference to Ushnuhi

16:30

Break

 

17:00

K. D. Crow

Mulla Sadra's Sharh of al-Sadiq's Hadith al-'Aql We i-Jani

17:30

M. Legenhausen

Ontological Proof in Avicenna, Mulla Sadra and Western Philosophers

18:00

H. Parsania

The Foundation and Historical Development of the Ontological Proof

18:30

D. J. Ranjin

Mulla Sadra on Nature

19:00

End of Session

 

 

 

Comparative Philosophy

Wednesday, MAY 26, 1999

Chair: W.Chittick

Vice-Chair: Q.Kakai & M.Macierowsky

 

TIME

SPEAKER

TITLE

9:00

H. Masumi Hamadani

The Theory of Vision in Mulla Sadra's Philosophy

9:30

Ms. L. Erickson

The Influence of Zoroastrianism on Judaism and Early Christianity

10:00

E. Wolf-Gazo

Trans-substantial Motion in Whitehead and Mulla Sadra's Thought

10:30

M. Mesbahi

The Problem of Essence, Existence, and Unity According to Averroes and Mulla Sadra

11:00

Break

 

11:30

U. Benissa

Mulla Sadra's Precursors in Philosophy

12:00

N. Robinson

From Marxism to Islam: The Philosophical Itinerary of Roger Garaudy

12:30

S. Pazouki

A Comparative Study of Suhrawardi's and Heidegger's Interpretations of the Ancient Greek Philosophers

13:00

Lunch Break

 

14:30

T. Jaffer

The Interior Drama of the Soul: The Metaphysics of Imagination and Prophetic Act in Avicenna and Mulla Sadra

16:00

A. Shari'atmadari

A Comparative Study of Mulla Sadra and Joan Piaget Regarding Certain Issues in Psychology

15:30

Z. Moris

Mulla Sadra and Hamza Fansuri: A Comparative Study of Some Aspects of Their Metaphysical Teachings

16:00

C. Segovia

Mulla Sadra's Onto-henology and the Western Contemporary Debate on Nihilism

16:30

Break

 

17:00

Hu Zhong

The Impact of the Persian Illuminationist School in Chinese Islamic Works of the 17th Century

17:30

W. al-Rahman

The Essence-Existence Distinction in Mulla Sadra and Modern Western Existentialism: A Comparative Study

18:00

M. Rafique

Mulla Sadra and Sri Aurobindo: A Comparative Study

18:30

A. Riahi

The Immateriality of the Soul According to Three Muslim Sages (Farabi, Avicenna, and Mulla Sadra)

19:00

End of Session

 

 

 

Issues in Western Philosophy

Wednesday, MAY 26, 1999

Chair: -

Vice-Chair: -

 

TIME

CHAIR

TITLE

9:00

D. Ihde

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

 

 

 

Islamic Philosophy

Wednesday, MAY 26, 1999

Chair: M.Aminrazavi

Vice-Chair: T.Mayar & M.Suheyl Umar

 

TIME

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

Wednesday, MAY 26, 1999

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

Wednesday, MAY 26, 1999

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

15:30

A. Keeler

Mulla Sadra's Commentary of Surat al-Sajda

16:00

M. Khatami

The Transcendent Method: A Reconstruction

16:30

Break

 

17:00

M. Mohammadi

The Status of the Sempiternal Origination of the World and Substantial Motion in Two Divergent Philosophical Systems

17:30

S. Rahimian

The Characteristics of the Theory of Emanation and Ontological Causation in Sadra's Transcendent Philosophy

18:00

H. Marazi

The Philosophy of Mulla Sadra with Special Reference to the Eschatology of Ibn Sina

18:30

S. H. Mousavian

Temporal Origination of the World in the Light of Sadra's Theory of Trans-substantial Motion

19:00

End of Session

 

 

 

Thursday, MAY 27, 1999

CLOSING SESSION: GENERAL MEETING

Chair: Seyyed Muhammad Khamenei

 

TIME

 

9:00

Announcement of the programm

9:05

Recitation of some verses of the Holy Qur'an

9:15

Speech by one one of the scientific and cultural officials of the country

10:00

Final report on the achievement of the scientific groups

11:00

Recitation of the concluding scientific communique

11:30

End of the First World Congress on Mulla Sadra (Hakim Sadr ad'din Muhammad Shirazi)