Inauguration Ceremony

The Second World Congress on Mulla Sadra and Transcendent Philosophy

Friday, May 21, 2004

 

Time

Program

17:30

 National anthem & program announcement

17:35

 Reciting some verses from the Holy Qur'an

17:45

 Welcome message and report by the president of Sadra Islamic Philosophy Research Institute

18:30

 Delivering the message of the supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran

18:45

 Speech by the honorable president of the Islamic Republic of Iran

19:15

 Announcing the programs of the congress- Break- Reception

   

Saturday Morning

May 22,2004 / Khordad 2,1383

Center Hall

Interpreter: Yes

Public Session

Subject: 

Chairman: Ayatullah S. Mohammed Khamenei

Board of Directors: Ayatullah S. M. Khamenei, Prof. R. Davari, Dr. Shariatmadari, Dr. D. Follesdal, Dr. D. B. Burrell

Time

Speaker

Topic

9:00

Ayatullah Misbah Yazdi

 

9:30

Prof. Reza Davari

 

9:50

Prof. James Morris

Dialogue as Civilisation: Philosophy and Spirituality in Mulla Sadra Today

10:10

Prof. Karim Mojtahedi

Mulla Sadra and Bergson

10:30

Dr. Mohsen Jahangiri

Mulla Sadra and Spinoza on Divine Casuality

11:00

Break

 

 

Saturday Morning

May 22,2004 / Khordad 2,1383

Hall # 1

Interpreter: Yes

(1) The Transcendent Philosophy and Mulla Sadra's School

 

Chairman: Prof. K. Mojtahedi

Board of Directors: Prof. K. Mojtahedi, Prof. E. Wolf-Gazo

Time

Speaker

Topic

11:30

Dr. Mustafa Muhaqqiq Damad

Natural Environment in the Transcendent Philosophy

12:00

Dr. Mohammad Mesbahi

The Existential Form in Shírazí

12:30

Dr. Hossein Ghaffari

A New Approach to the Doctrine of the Principiality of Existence

13:00

Break

 

 

Saturday Afternoon

May 22,2004 / Khordad 2,1383

Hall # 1

Interpreter: Yes

 (1) The Transcendent Philosophy and Mulla Sadra's School

 

 Chairman: Dr. M. Dehbashi

 Board of Directors: Dr. M. Dehbashi, Dr. M. Mesbahi

Time

Speaker

Topic

14:30

Prof. Gholam Reza Aawani

Why is Mulla Sadra Called Sadr al-Muta‘allihin

 

15:00

Dr. Ibrahim Kalin

Mulla Sadra and the Classical Kalam: Arguments for the Best of All Possible Worlds

15:30

Dr. S.Mosa Dibaj

Place as Substance: Mulla Sadra's Approath

16:00

Dr. S.Sadruddin

Mulla Sadra and the validity of Knowledge

16:30

Dr. Abbas Jawarishkiyan

Difference or Identity of Gradational Unity and Individual Unity of Being in the Transcendent Philosophy

17:00

Break

 

17:30

Dr. Qasim Kakai

Oneness of Being and Ignorant Sufis in Mulla Sadra

18:00

Dr. Mahmud Erol Kilic

Textualism and Hermeneutics: Mulla Sadra's Commentary on the Symbolism of “A Donkey Which Carries Burdens of Books” (Qur'an; 62:5)

18:30

Dr. Abulfazl Kiya Shemshaki

Sadra's Methodology: Foundationalism or Coherentism?

19:00

Dr. H. Ushshaqi Isfahani

Concomitant of the Prineipiality of Existerce with its Essential Necessity

19:30

Mr. Hojjatullah Rafii Shamsabadi

The Specifications of Transcendent Philosophy

20:00

End

 

  

Saturday Morning

May 22,2004 / Khordad 2,1383

Hall # 2

Interpreter: Yes

(2) Comparative Studies of Mulla Sadra and other Philosophers

 

Chairman: Prof. M. Khansari

Board of Directors: Prof. M. Khansari

Time

Speaker

Topic

11:30

Dr. Mehdi Dehbashi

A Comparative Study of the Reality of Knowledge in Philosophy of Mulla Sadra and Whitehead

12:00

Dr. Hamidreza Ayatollahy

The Transcendent Philosophy, the Philosophy of the Present and Future

12:30

Dr. Kathleen Haney

Mulla Sadra, Precursor to Edmund Husserl

13:00

Break

 

  

Saturday Afternoon

May 22,2004 / Khordad 2,1383

Hall # 2

Interpreter: Yes

(2) Comparative Studies of Mulla Sadra and other Philosophers

 

Chairman: Dr. M. Muhaqqiq Damad

Board of Directors:Dr. M. Muhaqqiq Damad, Dr. M. Legenhauzen

Time

Speaker

Topic

14:30

Dr. Ali Allah Bedashti

Theology in Aristotle's Philosophy and Sadra's One

15:00

Dr. S. Hasan Hosseini

The Impact of Ìêsí's Idea on Mulla Sadra with Regard to God's Knowledge and the Principle of al-Waåid

15:30

Prof. Ernest Wolf-Gazo

Sadra and German Idealist Philosophy: On the Problem of Intellectual Intuition

16:00

Dr. Abdurrazzaq Hesamifar

Refutation of Idealism in Islamic Philosophy

16:30

Dr. Ali Karbasizadeh Isfahani

The Best Achievement of Islamic Philosophy and Jurisprudence

17:00

Break

 

17:30

Prof. Hassan Hanafi

Is Mulla Sadra a Phenomenologist? The Relation between Theosophy and Phenomenology

18:00

Dr. Muhammed Kamal

Comparative Analysis of Mulla Sadra's Doctrine of the Primacy of Being with Martin Heidegger's Fundamental Ontology

18:30

Dr. Yusuf Nowzuhur

Epistemological Views of Mulla Sadra and Ibn Sína

19:00

Dr. Hassan Shahpari

Toward Theorizing Sadra's Social Psychology

19:30

Dr. Rasul Nimruzi

A comparative study of Mulla Sadra and Heidegger's ontology

20:00

End

 

  

Saturday Morning

May 22,2004 / Khordad 2,1383

Hall # 3

Interpreter: Yes

(5) Issues in Contemporary Philosophy, including Phenomenology, Existentialism, Analytic Philosophy, Hermeneutics, Philosophy of Language and Post-Modernism

Chairman: Prof. Z. Movahed

Board of Directors: Prof. Z. Movahed

Time

Speaker

Topic

11:30

Dr. Manoucher Sanei Darrebidi

The Place of Man in Kant's Thought

12:00

Dr. Yuriy M. Pochta

Narrative Methodology of the Islamic Society's Analysis

12:30

Dr. Amer Gheitury

Deconstruction and Presence

13:00

Break

 

  

Saturday Afternoon

May 22,2004 / Khordad 2,1383

Hall # 3

Interpreter: Yes

(5) Issues in Contemporary Philosophy, including Phenomenology, Existentialism, Analytic Philosophy, Hermeneutics, Philosophy of Language and Post-Modernism

Chairman: Prof. K. Mojtahedi

Board of Directors: Prof. K. Mojtahedi Dr. D. Follesdal

Time

Speaker

Topic

14:30

Dr. Mohammad Jawad Ejei

Knowledge and: Its acquirement in Mulla Sadra and Husserl

15:00

Dr. Hosein Bayat

Logical Syntax of Sentence in Aristotle, Frege, and Mulla Sadra

15:30

Dr. Muhammad Abudula

Ma Ping

The Contributions and Far-reaching Influences of Persian Islamic Culture to the Chinese Islamic Civilization

16:00

Dr. Frances Trix

Linguistic Analysis of the Process of Attunement in Dialogues of Sufí Master and Student

16:30

Dr. Morteza Fathizadeh

The Theories of Justification in Contemporary Epistemology

17:00

Break

 

17:30

Dr. Sadiq Larijani

Phenomenological & Hermeneutical Approach to the Kitab al-masha'ir

18:00

Dr. Leonardo Clerici

Three Modalities of Being and its Semantice in Mulla Sadra's Philosophy

18:30

Dr. Mohammad Saidi Mehr

Modal Concepts and Their Semantics in Mulla Sadra's Philosophy

19:00

Mr. Ali Parimi

The Hermenutics of Religious Texts

19:30

 

 

20:00

End

 

 

Saturday Morning

May 22,2004 / Khordad 2,1383

Hall # 4

Interpreter: Yes

(4) History of Philosophy, the Philosophy of Ancient Iran and its Influence on World Philosophy

 

Chairman: Dr. A. Faramarz Qaramaleki

Board of Directors: Dr. A. Faramarz Qaramaleki, Dr. J. F. Quinn

Time

Speaker

Topic

11:30

Dr. Joseph Edward Barbour Lumbard

Aåmad al-Ghazalí's Metaphysics of Love

12:00

Dr. Leslaw Borowski

Ancient Persian Godhead Lore and the Dawn of the Highest Wisdom in the West

12:30

Dr. Hossain Kalbasi Ashtari

Prophetic Wisdom as Viewed by Mulla Sadra with Special Reference to Hermetic Tradition

13:00

Break

 

  

Saturday Afternoon

May 22,2004 / Khordad 2,1383

Hall # 4

Interpreter: Yes

(4) History of Philosophy, the Philosophy of Ancient Iran and its Influence on World Philosophy

 

Chairman: Dr. M. T. Faali

Board of Directors: Dr. M. T. Faali, Dr. N. Kirabaev

Time

Speaker

Topic

14:30

Dr. Nurrullah Aqili

Zurvanian Approach in Ancient Iran and its Impact on Mazdaian and Islamic Kalam

15:00

Mr. Mahmud Nazari Pur

Hakim Mulla Ali Nuri, the Great Exponernt of the Transcendent Philosophy

15:30

Dr. Mohammad Reza Chitsaz

Plato and Magianism

16:00

Dr. Mohammad Fanai Eshkevari

Historiography of Islamic Philosophy

16:30

Dr. Ali Fath Taheri

The Principle of Containment and its Relation with Necessity Contingency in Libnitz's Philosophy

17:00

Break

 

 

Sunday Morning

May 23,2004 / Khordad 3,1383

Hall # 1

Interpreter: Yes

(1) The Transcendent Philosophy and Mulla Sadra's School

 

Chairman: Prof. M. Khansari

Board of Directors: Prof. M. Khansari, Dr. D. B. Burrell

Time

Speaker

Topic

9:00

Dr. Ahmad Beheshti

The Natural and Non-natural Movement in Mulla Sadra and Other

9:30

Dr. Yanis Eshots

A Comparative Study of Teachings of Sadr al-Dín Qunawi and Mulla Sadra on Wujêd

10:00

Dr. S. Mohammad Hakkak

Secondary Type of Acquired Knowledge in Mulla Sadra

10:30

Dr. Maqsud Mohammadi

Theory of Living World and its Reflection on the Transcendent Philosophy

11:00

Break

 

11:30

Dr. Mosa Malayiri

The Clue of Mulla Sadra's Thought

12:00

Mr. S. Yunes Adyani

A Contemplation in Transcendent Philosophy

12:30

Dr. Sahar Kavandi

Mulla Sadra on Intellection

13:00

Break

 

  

Sunday Afternoon

May 23,2004 / Khordad 3,1383

Hall # 1

Interpreter: Yes

(1) The Transcendent Philosophy and Mulla Sadra's School

 

Chairman: Dr. A. Beheshti

Board of Directors: Dr. A. Beheshti, Dr. M. Navali

Time

Speaker

Topic

14:30

Dr. Abdullah Shakiba

The Influence of Past philosophers on the Formation of Transcendent Philosophy

15:00

Dr. Mohammed Mohammed Rezai

Mulla Sadra and the Principiality of Existence

15:30

Mr. Hamid Reza Nazari

Corbin's Version of Sadra's Philosophy

16:00

Mr. Salahuddin Salehi

A New Attitude to Transcendent Philosophy in the Light of Principality of Existennce

16:30

Mr. S.Mohammad Kazim Alawi

Origion of the Principle of Ambiguity of being

17:00

Break

 

  

Sunday Morning

May 23,2004 / Khordad 3,1383

Hall # 2

Interpreter: Yes

(2) Comparative Studies of Mulla Sadra and other Philosophers 

 

Chairman: Dr. M. J. Ejei

Board of Directors: Dr. M. J. Ejei, Dr. H. Shahpari

Time

Speaker

Topic

9:00

Dr. Mahmud Navali

Phenomenology and Islamic Philosophy

9:30

Dr. John Robert Toby Lamont

The Question of the Real Distinction between Essence and Existence

10:00

Dr. Zahra Mustafawi

The Union of the Intellect and the Intelligible as Viewed by Mulla Sadra and Ibn Sína: A Comparative Study

10:30

Ms. Nasrin Saraji Pur

Mulla Sadra and Leibniz on Unity and Plurality

11:00

Break

 

11:30

Dr. Ali Shirwani

Motion as Viewed by Mulla Sadra and Bergson

12:00

Dr. Yusuf Shaqul

Mulla Sadra and Whitehead: Similarity at the Same Time Dissimilarity

12:30

Dr. Shahram Pazuki

The Paradox of Mysticism in the Time and Works of Sadra

13:00

Break

 

  

Sunday Afternoon

May 23,2004 / Khordad 3,1383

Hall # 2

Interpreter: Yes

(2) Comparative Studies of Mulla Sadra and other Philosophers 

 

Chairman: Prof. G. E. Dinani

Board of Directors: Prof. G. E. Dinani, Dr. Shahin Aawani

Time

Speaker

Topic

14:30

Dr. Hamid Parsaniya

Hegel's Ontology in the View of Sadra's Philosophy

15:00

Dr. Qasim Pur Hasan

A Comparative Study of Mulla Sadra and Paul Ricour's Hermeneutics

15:30

Dr. Touba Kermani

Substance in Islamic Philosophy and Western Rationalist Philosophy: A Comparative Study

16:00

Mr. Qudratullah Qurbani

Mulla Sadra's Principle of the Possibility of the Noblest and Descarte's poinciple of Causality A Comparison

16:30

Dr. Ali Rahbar

Mulla Sadra in Europe

17:00

Break

 

 

Sunday Morning

May 23,2004 / Khordad 3,1383

Hall # 3

Interpreter: Yes

(6) Philosophy of Science

 

Chairman: Dr. M. Dehbashi

Board of Directors: Dr. M. Dehbashi, Dr. T. Albertini

Time

Speaker

Topic

9:00

Dr. Mohmmad Jawad Larijani

 

9:30

Dr. Towfic Shomar

Modeling in Applied Physics: Polymers

9:50

Mr. Alireza Qaimi Niya

 

10:10

Dr. Alex Orenstein

Reviving a Traditional Concept of Existential Import

10:40

Mr. Amir Karbasizadeh

Revisiting Hume's Sceptical Argument

11:00

Break

 

11:30

Dr. Reza Solayman Heshmat

The Principles of Ta'wíl in Mulla Sadra and Modern Hermeneutics: A Comparison

12:00

Dr. Mohammad Ali Hojjati

Frege and Closter Theory of Semanties

12:20

Dr. Rebecca Schweder

A Unificationist Model of Scientific Explanation

12:40

Dr. Marcus Romberg

An Account of Causality and the Relation between Causal Rules and Scientific Explanations

13:00

Break

 

  

Sunday Afternoon

May 23,2004 / Khordad 3,1383

Hall # 4

Interpreter: Yes

Philosophy for Children

 

Chairman:

Board of Directors: Ms. Farzaneh Shahrtash, Dr. Oscar Brenifier, Dr. Amirhossein Asqari, Dr. Ali Shariatmadari, Dr. Reza Mohammad Zadeh, Dr. Ahad Faramarz Qaramaleki

Time

Speaker

Topic

14:30

 

 

15:00

 

 

15:30

 

 

16:00

 

 

16:30

 

 

17:00

Break

 

 

 

Sunday Morning

May 23,2004 / Khordad 3,1383

Hall # 4

Interpreter: Yes

(9) Theology and Philosophy of Religion 

 

Chairman: Dr. Sadiq Larijani

Board of Directors: Dr. Sadiq Larijani, Dr. Y. Eshots

Time

Speaker

Topic

9:00

Prof. Gholamhosein Ebrahimi Dinani

 

9:30

Dr. Leroy N. Meyer

The Falcon and the Fox: Concilience between the Sacred and the Secular

10:00

Dr. Reza Akbari

The Theory of Derivative as Viewed by Muslim Philosophers

 

10:30

Dr. Ali Malikzadih

The Transcendent Philosophy and the Questions of Tawhid Afali

11:00

Break

 

11:30

Dr. M. Legenhauzen

No to lack of Sense: Demonstration of God by Anselm & Suhrawardí

11:50

Dr. Abbas Gohari

Fundamental Differences between Shi‘ite and Mu‘tazilite on the Principles of Religion

12:10

Ms. Nourieh Riazee

The Identity Between God's will and Knowledge: A Comparative Study

12:30

Dr. A.Abbas Ali Zamani

Mulla Sadra on Semantics of Divine Characteristics

13:00

Break

 

 

Sunday Afternoon

May 23,2004 / Khordad 3,1383

Hall # 3

Interpreter: Yes

(9) Theology and Philosophy of Religion 

 

Chairman: Dr. M. Legenhauzen

Board of Directors: Dr. M. Legenhauzen, Dr. R. Akbari

Time

Speaker

Topic

14:30

Dr. Ahmad Asgari

Predestination and Free Will in Mulla Sadra and Spinoza: A Comparative Study

15:00

Mr. Mohsen Pishwai

Prophecy in the Transcendent Philosophy

15:30

Mr. Mohammad Hosein Pajohandeh

Religious Knowledge from the Perspective of Reason and Revelation

16:00

Mr. Abdullah Niksirat

Emanation of the World from God in the Transcendent Philosophy

16:30

Ms. Marziyeh Akhlaqi

The Reality of Man and its Place in the World

17:00

Break

 

 

Round Table of Mulla Sadra International Society

Subject: 

 

Chairman:

Board of Directors:

Sunday Afternoon

May 23,2004 / 3rd, Kordad, 1383

Interpreter: Yes

 

Topic

Speaker

Time

 

 

17:30

 

Monday Morning

May 24,2004 / Khordad 4,1383

Center Hall

Interpreter: Yes

Public Session

Subject: 

Chairman: Ayatullah S. Mohammed Khamenei

Board of Directors: Ayatullah S. M. Khamenei, Dr. M. Mesbahi, Dr. J. Walbridge, Dr. M. Muhaqqiq Damad, Dr. J. F. Quinn

Time

Speaker

Topic

9:00

Prof. Mohammad Khansari

The Sole Basis of Philosophy and Knowledge

9:30

Dr. David B. Burrell

Existence Deriving from “the Existent”: Mulla Sadra's Dialectic with Ibn Sína and Ibn al-‘Arabí

10:00

Prof. Ahmad Ahmadi

Trans-substantial Motion and the Stability of Knowledge

10:30

 

 

11:00

Break

 

 

Monday Morning

May 24,2004 / Khordad 4,1383

Hall # 1

Interpreter: Yes

(13) Interpretation and the Science of Hadith 

 

Chairman: Dr. T. Kermani

Board of Directors: Dr. T. Kermani, Prof. J. Morris

Time

Speaker

Topic

11:30

Dr. Nasrullah Shameli

Synonymy and Mulla Sadra's Method in Tafsir and Hadith

12:00

Dr. Tamara Albertini

The Question of Bid‘a: May, Can, and/or Should Islamic Jurisprudence Allow for Innovation?

12:30

Dr. Nahleh Gharawi Naini

Mulla Sadra's Commentary upon Surat al-Yasín

13:00

Break

 

 

Monday Afternoon

May 24,2004 / Khordad 4,1383

Hall # 1

Interpreter: Yes

(13) Interpretation and the Science of Hadith 

 

Chairman: Dr. S.S. Taheri

Board of Directors: Dr. S.S. Taheri, Dr. N. Gharawi Naini

Time

Speaker

Topic

14:30

Dr. Mohammed Bidhendi

Mulla Sadra and Heidegger on The Concept of reality

15:00

Dr. Abulqasim Hossein Dust

Divine Speech and Book in Sadrian Transcendent

15:20

Mr. Jawad Qasemi

Qur'anic Sources of Sadrian Philosophy & Matching Philosophy to Religion

15:40

Mr. S.A.J.Gulbaghi Masuleh

Mugattiah Letters in Mulla Sadra and Tabatabai's Views

16:00

Dr. Ali Arshad Riyahi

Effects of Mulla Sadra's Philosophy in his Knowledge of the Qur,anic Verses

16:20

Mr. Abulfazl Jafari Nijad

A Glance at the Theories of Contemporary Religious Sociology

16:40

Mr. S.Mohammad Haddadi

Existentialism

17:00

Break

 

  

Monday Morning

May 24,2004 / Khordad 4,1383

Hall # 2

Interpreter: Yes

(2) Comparative Studies of Mulla Sadra and other Philosophers 

 

Chairman: Dr. M. T. Faali

Board of Directors: Dr. M. T. Faali, Dr. H. Kalbasi Ashtari

Time

Speaker

Topic

11:30

Dr. S.Hosein Waizi

Perupthions of the Soul in Mulla Sadra and Ibn Arabi:

A Comparative Study

12:00

Dr. Husain Heriyanto

Philosophy of Relationship:

The Importance of Mulla Sadra's Philosophy for our Civilization Today

12:30

Mr. Alireza Fazili

Qotbuddin, Sadra and Contemporary Philosophers and Mystics on Literal and Conceptual Commonality of Existence

13:00

Break

 

  

Monday Afternoon

May 24,2004 / Khordad 4,1383

Hall # 2

Interpreter: Yes

(2) Comparative Studies of Mulla Sadra and other Philosophers 

 

Chairman: Dr. M. Navali

Board of Directors: Dr. M. Navali,

Time

Speaker

Topic

14:30

Mr. Abdulali Shokr

Copulative and Predicative Existence in Mulla Sadra, Kant & Farabí

15:00

Mr. Sohrab Haqiqat

Matter and Form as Viewed by Ibn Sína, Suhrawardí, and Mulla Sadra: An Existential Analysis/ God's Speech and Speech-act Theory

15:30

Dr. Tahereh Kamali Zadih

Transcendent Philosophy and the Issue of Evil

(in Islamic Philosophy and Christianity)

16:00

Dr. Mujtaba Eskandari

Concept and Functions of Love as Viewed by Mulla Sadra and Imam Khomeini

16:30

Dr. Mohammad Jawad Safiyan

A Meditation on the Nature of Truth

17:00

Break

 

  

Monday Morning

May 24,2004 / Khordad 4,1383

Hall # 3

Interpreter: Yes

(8) Logic and Philosophy of Logic 

 

Chairman: Dr. M. Javad Larijani

Board of Directors: Dr. M.  Javad Larijani, Dr. K. Haney

Time

Speaker

Topic

11:30

Prof. Zia Movahed

Ibn Sína's Anticipation of Buridan and Barcan Formulas

12:00

Dr. Jan Woleński

Truth and Logic

12:30

Dr. Ahad Faramarz Qaramaleki

Mulla Sadra's Methodology

13:00

Break

 

  

Monday Afternoon

May 24,2004 / Khordad 4,1383

Hall # 3

Interpreter: Yes

(8) Logic and Philosophy of Logic 

 

Chairman: Dr. A. F. Qaramaleki

Board of Directors: Dr. A.F. Qaramaleki, Dr.A. Arshad Riyahi

Time

Speaker

Topic

14:30

Dr. Reza Mohammad Zadeh

Philosophical Analysis

15:00

Mr. Saeed Anwari

Two Opposing Views on Primary Essential Predication and Technical Predication

15:30

Mr. S.M.Jawad Shariati

Mulla Sadra's Innovations in Logic

16:00

Mr. Mohsen Kashi

Logical Concomitants of Predicative Existence in Mulla Sadra's View

16:30

Mr. Davoud Atashgahi

Changes in the Meaning of Three Modalities of Being (Necessity, Contingency and Impossibility) on the Basis of the Principiality of Existence

17:00

Break

 

  

Monday Morning

May 24,2004 / Khordad 4,1383

Hall # 4

Interpreter: Yes

(3) Comparative Studies of Islamic Philosophy and Western Philosophy

 

Chairman: Dr. M. Sanei Darrebidi

Board of Directors: Dr. M. Sanei Darrebidi, Dr. I. Kalin

Time

Speaker

Topic

11:30

Dr. Ali M. Afzali

Ontological Argument as Viewed by Leibniz and Ayatullah Mohammad Hosein Isfahani Gharawi

12:00

Dr. John Walbridge

The Alexandrian Epitomes of Galen and the Transmission of Greek Philosophy to the Muslims

12:30

Dr. Karim Douglas Crow

Reason, Physicalism, and Islam

13:00

Break

 

   

Monday Afternoon

May 24,2004 / Khordad 4,1383

Hall # 4

Interpreter: Yes

(3) Comparative Studies of Islamic Philosophy and Western Philosophy

 

Chairman: Dr. M. Jawadi

Board of Directors: Dr. M. Jawadi, Dr. A. Hesamifar

Time

Speaker

Topic

14:30

Prof. Ashk P. Dahlén

Siraì al-Mustaqím – One or Many? The Philosophy of John Hick in an Iranian Context

15:00

Ms. Umeyye Isra Yazicioglu

Eternal Substance and Causality: Reading Berkeley from a Contemporary Muslim Theologian's Perspective

15:30

Mr. M.Jawad Sarawi

Motion in Illuminationist and Transcendent Philosophies

16:00

Dr. Bahram Tusi

The Impact of Zoroastra and Iranian Religion on Greek and Illuminationist Philosophies

16:30

Dr. Aydın Topaloglu

The Knowledge of God in the Philosophy of al-Farabí

17:00

Break

 

  

Tuesday Morning

May 25,2004 / Khordad 5,1383

Hall # 1

Interpreter: Yes

(12) Gnosis and Mysticism (Tasawwuf) 

 

Chairman: Dr. A. Sheikhulislami

Board of Directors: Dr. A, Sheikhulislami, Dr. Q. Kakai

Time

Speaker

Topic

9:00

Dr. Jalil Misgar Nijad

Mulla Sadra and Gnostic Views

9:30

Dr. Mohd Rushdan Bin Mohd Jailani

The Polemic on the Doctrine of Wujêd in 16th and 17th Century Malay Sufí Literatures: An Evaluation

10:00

Dr. Saeed Rahimiyan

The Relevance of Knowledge to Microcosm and Microcosm

in Mulla Sadra

10:30

Dr. S.Mohammad Damadi

Evidences of Sadra's Inclination to Mysticism

11:00

Break

 

11:30

Mr. Morteza Waiz Jawadi

The Advantages of Theoretical Mysticism First Philosophy and Their Differences

12:00

Dr. Joseph P. Lawrence

Beauty Beyond Appearance, Love without Desire: Experiencing the Numinous in Nature

12:20

Dr. Fereshteh Nadri Abyaneh

1. Ibn Arabi on Global Reformer / 2. Sadra on Perfect Human's Samples

12:40

Dr. W.Mohd Azam Mohd Amin

Islam and the Polemic of the Waådat al-Wujêd (The Unity of Being) and the Falsafat al-Ishraqí (Illuminationist Philosophy) in Malay Psychic

13:00

Break

 

  

Tuesday Afternoon

May 25,2004 / Khordad 5,1383

Hall # 1

Interpreter: Yes

(12) Gnosis and Mysticism (Tasawwuf) 

 

Chairman: Dr. T. Kermani

Board of Directors: Dr. T. Kermani, Prof. J. Morris

Time

Speaker

Topic

14:30

Dr. Ali Sheikhulislami

The Gnostic Station of Sadr al-Muta‘allihin Gnosis

14:50

Dr. Robert J. Dobie

Gnosis, Metaphysics, and Revelation in Medieval Christian and Islamic Philosophy

15:20

Dr. Susan Ali Rasul

Love in Islamic Gnosis

15:40

Dr. Fatullah Abbasi

The Relevance of Libertine to Expedience

16:00

Mr. Waliullah Malakuti Far

Moral Feature and Conduct of Mulla Sadra

16:20

Mr. S.Zainal Abidin Sfafi

Mulla Sadra and pathology of Gnosis and Mysticism

16:40

Dr. S.Mohammad Dashti

Rumi and Ibn Arabi's Theory of Divine Names and Attributes

17:00

Break

 

   

Tuesday Morning

May 25,2004 / Khordad 5,1383

Hall # 2

Interpreter: Yes

(11) Philosophical Psychology and Eschatology 

 

Chairman: Prof. M. Khansari

Board of Directors: Prof. M. Khansari, Dr. H. Kalbasi Ashtari

Time

Speaker

Topic

9:00

Dr. Hosein Eskandari

Trans-substantial Motion as a Solution for Existential Development of Mental Illness

9:20

Dr. Gabriel Said Reynolds

The Eschaton and Justice in the Thought of Mulla Sadra

9:40

Dr. Mahdi Najafi Afra

Corporeal Resurrection in Mulla Sadra's Philosophy

10:00

Mr. Mohammad Jawad Pirmoradi

Theoretical Foundations of Corporeal resurrection in Mulla Sadra

10:20

Ms. Sima Mohammadpur Dehkordi

The Principality of Existence is the Principality of Love

10:40

Ms. Masomeh Mowahhid Niya

The Soul – Body Relation in Mulla Sadra's Philosophy

11:00

Break

 

11:30

Dr. Saeed Beheshti

Mulla Sadra's Innovative Ideas in Psychology

11:50

Dr. Christian Kanzian

Individual Essences and The Possibility of Immortality

12:10

Mr. Hossein Arab

The Arguments of Immateriality of Soul in Mulla Sadra

12:30

Mr. Behzad Mohammadi

Eternity of Punishment or Its denial in Mulla Sadra's View

13:00

Break

 

  

Tuesday Afternoon

May 25,2004 / Khordad 5,1383

Hall # 2

Interpreter: Yes

(11) Philosophical Psychology and Eschatology

 

Chairman: Dr. A. F. Qaramaleki

Board of Directors: Dr. A.F. Qaramaleki, Dr. M. Saidi Mehr

Time

Speaker

Topic

14:30

Dr. Latimah-Parvin Peerwani

Mind-Body Relationship According to Mulla Sadra

15:00

Dr. Kiki Kennedy- Day

Ibn Sína and Mulla Sadra's Arguments against Tanasukh in the Afterlife of Souls

15:30

Ms. Senubar Ali Hoseini

The Theory of Corporeal Genesis of Soul or Colony

15:50

Mr. Sohrab Haqiqat

Matter and Form as Viewed by Ibn Sína, Suhrawardí, and Mulla Sadra: An Existential Analysis

16:10

Mr. Ghulam Hosein Ahmadi

A Critical study of Ishraqi Eschatology on the Basis of the Transcendent Philosophy

16:30

Mr. Hasan Muradi

The Proofs of the Catharsis of the Soul

17:00

Break

 

  

Tuesday Morning

May 25,2004 / Khordad 5,1383

Hall # 3

Interpreter: Yes

(7) Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Sciences 

 

Chairman: Dr. M. Muhaqqiq Damad

Board of Directors: Dr. M. Muhaqqiq Damad, Prof. E. Wolf-Gazo

Time

Speaker

Topic

9:00

Mr. Ali Akbar Rashad

Fiìrah (Primordial Nature) as a Religious Proof

9:30

Dr. Mohammed Taqi Faali

Theory of Truth: An Inflection

10:00

Dr. Steffen Borge

Some Remarks on Reid on Primary and Secondary Qualities

10:20

Mr. Masud Omid

Some Propositions in Comparative Epistemology:

‘Allamah Ìabaìaba'í and Kant

10:40

Mr. Rasul Birjisiyan

Mulla Sadra and Kant's Epistemologies: A Comparative Study

11:00

Break

 

11:30

Dr. Mansur Imanpur

Acquired Knowledge and its Compatibility with External Objectes in the Transcendent Philosophy

12:00

Dr. Arifa Farid

Mulla Sadra's Theory of Knowledge

12:30

Mr. Nasir Momini

The Influence of Sadra's Psychology on his Epistemology

13:00

Break

 

 

Tuesday Afternoon

May 25,2004 / Khordad 5,1383

Hall # 3

Interpreter: Yes

(13) Interpretation and the Science of Hadith 

 

Chairman: Dr. H. Parsaniya

Board of Directors: Dr. H. Parsaniya, Dr. A. Hesamifar

Time

Speaker

Topic

14:30

Dr. Mohammad Faghfoory

The Necessity of Studying Shi'i Commentaries on the Qur'an

15:00

Dr. Masumah Zabihi

Sadra and the Love in the Perfect Man

15:30

Dr. Isham Pawan Ahmad

The Message and its Symbols: The Effectiveness of Translating Truths into Action in Religions According to al-Farabí

15:50

Mr. Mohammad Hasan Sabziwari

Gnosis and Mysticism

16:10

Dr. Daniel Smith

Reason, Humanism, and Transcendence in the Philosophy of Mulla Sadra Shirazi

16:30

Julián Arturo Zapata

The Everlasting Struggle between the Light and the Darkness

17:00

Break

 

 

 

Tuesday Morning

25,May,2004 / 5th, Khordad, 1383

Hall # 4

Interpreter: Yes

(10) Ethics, Philosophy of Art, and Politics    

 

Chairman: Prof. G. Reza Aawani

Board of Directors: Prof. G. Reza Aawani, Dr. H. Ayatollahy

Time

Speaker

Topic

9:00

Dr. Baqir Larijani

The Impact of Philosophy of Ethics on Practical Decision–Makings of Medical Ethics

9:30

Dr. Dagfinn Follesdal

The Emergence of Justification in Ethics

10:00

Dr. Shahin Aawani

Man in the Transcendent Philosophy

10:30

Dr. Hans Kochler

The Philosophical Foundations of Civilizational Dialogue

11:00

Break

 

11:30

Dr. Mohsen Jawadi

Mulla Sadra on Practical Reason

11:50

Dr. Nur Kirabaev

Muslim Civilization in Globalized World

12:10

Mr. Najaf Lakzai

Transcendent Political Philosophy

12:40

Dr. Ivan Kaltchev

Ecumenism and the Harmony of Religions; Outlooks for the New Millennium

13:00

Break

 

 

 

Tuesday Afternoon

May 25,2004 / Khordad 5,1383

Hall # 4

Interpreter: Yes

(10) Ethics, Philosophy of Art, and Politics

 

Chairman: Prof. G. Reza Aawani

Board of Directors: Prof. G. Reza Aawani, Dr. M. Jawadi

Time

Speaker

Topic

14:30

Dr. John F. Quinn

The Imaginal World, Mulla Sadra and Islamic Aesthetics

14:50

Dr. Mohammad Azadpur

Hegel on Pre-Islamic and Islamic Persia

15:10

Dr. Workineh Kelbessa

Environmental Ethics and Policy

 

15:30

Mr. Hossein Atrak

A Plan for Islamic Ethics (Theory of Qurb and B‘ud)

 

15:50

Ms. Maryam Sani Pur

The Relation between Ethical Issues and Religion

16:10

Mr. Yahya Buzari Nijad

The Beauty and the Rule of Basit Alhaqiqa (Simple Reality)

16:30

Dr. Fanny Ochoa

Communication Notion, Essential in the Dialogue Among Civilizations

17:00

Break

 

 

 Closing Ceremony

The Second World Congress on Mulla Sadra and Transcendent Philosophy

Tuesday, May 25, 2004

 

Time

Program

17:30

 Guests' taking seats

17:35

 Announcing the programs and inviting the board of directors to their seats

17:40

 Board of directors' taking seat

17:45

 Reciting some verses from the Holy Qur'an

17:50

 Speech

18:20

 Giving the final report of the activities of the scientific groups of the congress

19:00

 Reading the closing manifesto

19:30

 End of The Second World Congress on Mulla Sadra and Transcendent Philosophy