Oraibi, "Shīʻī renaissance : a case study of the theosophical school of Bahrain in the 7 th /13th... more Oraibi, "Shīʻī renaissance : a case study of the theosophical school of Bahrain in the 7 th /13th century," 45. 5 Oraibi, "Shīʻī renaissance : a case study of the theosophical school of Bahrain in the 7 th /13th century," 44-5. 4 Oraibi, "Shīʻī renaissance : a case study of the theosophical school of Bahrain in the 7 th /13th century," 42-3. 3 Maytham al-Baḥrānī, Sharḥ Nahj al-Balāgha, edited by 'Abd al-Qādir Ḥusayn (Beirut: Dār al-Shurūq, 1987). 2 Note that historically, "Bahrain" can refer to the west coast of the Arabian peninsula, stretching from Basra to Oman. Oraibi, "Shīʻī renaissance : a case study of the theosophical school of Bahrain in the 7 th /13th century," 9; 35.
This thesis examines Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī’s (d. 974 CE) treatment of the problem of divine foreknowledg... more This thesis examines Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī’s (d. 974 CE) treatment of the problem of divine foreknowledge. Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī was a Jacobite Christian theologian and philosopher born in 893 CE to a family of Syriac-speaking Christians in Tikrit, Iraq. After moving to Baghdad—at that time the flourishing intellectual and cultural capital of the Abbasid Empire—Yaḥyā studied under the scholarch of the Baghdad Peripatetics, Abū Bishr ibn Mattā (d. 940 CE), and alongside the influential Muslim philosopher and logician, al-Fārābī (d. 950 CE). Yaḥyā’s Risāla fī Ithbāt Ṭabī‘at al-Mumkin [Treatise on the Affirmation of the Nature of the Contingent] is his most extended treatment of the problem of divine foreknowledge. The thesis offers a historical contextualization and analysis of the treatise, focusing on Yaḥyā’s attempts to solve the problem of divine foreknowledge, a classical theological puzzle that attempts to force a choice between God’s omniscience and the reality of contingency. We argue that Yaḥyā offers a philosophically innovative solution that maintains the absolute immutability of God while denying the absolute immutability of His knowledge, while building upon earlier efforts by his late antique predecessors, such as Stephanus (d. 640 CE), Ammonius (d. ca. 526 CE), Boethius (d. 524 CE) and Iamblichus (d. 325 CE).
The consensus in the majority of the philosophic and scientific community is that the scientific ... more The consensus in the majority of the philosophic and scientific community is that the scientific project is in its essence concerned with affording explanation and understanding of natural phenomena. We set out to examine the mechanism by which science affords explanation through the presentation and evaluation of two influential models for scientific explanation presented in the 2 nd half of the 20 th century: the Deductive-Nomological (DN) model pioneered by Carl Hempel and Paul Oppenheim, and the Unificationist model as presented and defended by Philip Kitcher. We consider four objections against the DN model, and three against the unificationist model, concluding: that the DN criteria for scientific explanation are indeed necessary but insufficient for explanation, that the unificationist criteria as they stand are neither sufficient nor necessary for explanation, and that both models fall short of a complete model for explanation due to their reluctance to accept the concept of causation as one independent of explanation.
This thesis examines Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī’s (d. 974 CE) treatment of the problem of divine foreknowledg... more This thesis examines Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī’s (d. 974 CE) treatment of the problem of divine foreknowledge. Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī was a Jacobite Christian theologian and philosopher born in 893 CE to a family of Syriac-speaking Christians in Tikrit, Iraq. After moving to Baghdad—at that time the flourishing intellectual and cultural capital of the Abbasid Empire—Yaḥyā studied under the scholarch of the Baghdad Peripatetics, Abū Bishr ibn Mattā (d. 940 CE), and alongside the influential Muslim philosopher and logician, al-Fārābī (d. 950 CE). Yaḥyā’s Risāla fī Ithbāt Ṭabī‘at al-Mumkin [Treatise on the Affirmation of the Nature of the Contingent] is his most extended treatment of the problem of divine foreknowledge. The thesis offers a historical contextualization and analysis of the treatise, focusing on Yaḥyā’s attempts to solve the problem of divine foreknowledge, a classical theological puzzle that attempts to force a choice between God’s omniscience and the reality of contingency. We argue that Yaḥyā offers a philosophically innovative solution that maintains the absolute immutability of God while denying the absolute immutability of His knowledge, while building upon earlier efforts by his late antique predecessors, such as Stephanus (d. 640 CE), Ammonius (d. ca. 526 CE), Boethius (d. 524 CE) and Iamblichus (d. 325 CE).
Course report for an introductory logic course, taken at a ḥawzawī madrasa in at Najaf, Iraq duri... more Course report for an introductory logic course, taken at a ḥawzawī madrasa in at Najaf, Iraq during the Summer of 2018.
Oraibi, "Shīʻī renaissance : a case study of the theosophical school of Bahrain in the 7 th /13th... more Oraibi, "Shīʻī renaissance : a case study of the theosophical school of Bahrain in the 7 th /13th century," 45. 5 Oraibi, "Shīʻī renaissance : a case study of the theosophical school of Bahrain in the 7 th /13th century," 44-5. 4 Oraibi, "Shīʻī renaissance : a case study of the theosophical school of Bahrain in the 7 th /13th century," 42-3. 3 Maytham al-Baḥrānī, Sharḥ Nahj al-Balāgha, edited by 'Abd al-Qādir Ḥusayn (Beirut: Dār al-Shurūq, 1987). 2 Note that historically, "Bahrain" can refer to the west coast of the Arabian peninsula, stretching from Basra to Oman. Oraibi, "Shīʻī renaissance : a case study of the theosophical school of Bahrain in the 7 th /13th century," 9; 35.
This thesis examines Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī’s (d. 974 CE) treatment of the problem of divine foreknowledg... more This thesis examines Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī’s (d. 974 CE) treatment of the problem of divine foreknowledge. Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī was a Jacobite Christian theologian and philosopher born in 893 CE to a family of Syriac-speaking Christians in Tikrit, Iraq. After moving to Baghdad—at that time the flourishing intellectual and cultural capital of the Abbasid Empire—Yaḥyā studied under the scholarch of the Baghdad Peripatetics, Abū Bishr ibn Mattā (d. 940 CE), and alongside the influential Muslim philosopher and logician, al-Fārābī (d. 950 CE). Yaḥyā’s Risāla fī Ithbāt Ṭabī‘at al-Mumkin [Treatise on the Affirmation of the Nature of the Contingent] is his most extended treatment of the problem of divine foreknowledge. The thesis offers a historical contextualization and analysis of the treatise, focusing on Yaḥyā’s attempts to solve the problem of divine foreknowledge, a classical theological puzzle that attempts to force a choice between God’s omniscience and the reality of contingency. We argue that Yaḥyā offers a philosophically innovative solution that maintains the absolute immutability of God while denying the absolute immutability of His knowledge, while building upon earlier efforts by his late antique predecessors, such as Stephanus (d. 640 CE), Ammonius (d. ca. 526 CE), Boethius (d. 524 CE) and Iamblichus (d. 325 CE).
The consensus in the majority of the philosophic and scientific community is that the scientific ... more The consensus in the majority of the philosophic and scientific community is that the scientific project is in its essence concerned with affording explanation and understanding of natural phenomena. We set out to examine the mechanism by which science affords explanation through the presentation and evaluation of two influential models for scientific explanation presented in the 2 nd half of the 20 th century: the Deductive-Nomological (DN) model pioneered by Carl Hempel and Paul Oppenheim, and the Unificationist model as presented and defended by Philip Kitcher. We consider four objections against the DN model, and three against the unificationist model, concluding: that the DN criteria for scientific explanation are indeed necessary but insufficient for explanation, that the unificationist criteria as they stand are neither sufficient nor necessary for explanation, and that both models fall short of a complete model for explanation due to their reluctance to accept the concept of causation as one independent of explanation.
This thesis examines Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī’s (d. 974 CE) treatment of the problem of divine foreknowledg... more This thesis examines Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī’s (d. 974 CE) treatment of the problem of divine foreknowledge. Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī was a Jacobite Christian theologian and philosopher born in 893 CE to a family of Syriac-speaking Christians in Tikrit, Iraq. After moving to Baghdad—at that time the flourishing intellectual and cultural capital of the Abbasid Empire—Yaḥyā studied under the scholarch of the Baghdad Peripatetics, Abū Bishr ibn Mattā (d. 940 CE), and alongside the influential Muslim philosopher and logician, al-Fārābī (d. 950 CE). Yaḥyā’s Risāla fī Ithbāt Ṭabī‘at al-Mumkin [Treatise on the Affirmation of the Nature of the Contingent] is his most extended treatment of the problem of divine foreknowledge. The thesis offers a historical contextualization and analysis of the treatise, focusing on Yaḥyā’s attempts to solve the problem of divine foreknowledge, a classical theological puzzle that attempts to force a choice between God’s omniscience and the reality of contingency. We argue that Yaḥyā offers a philosophically innovative solution that maintains the absolute immutability of God while denying the absolute immutability of His knowledge, while building upon earlier efforts by his late antique predecessors, such as Stephanus (d. 640 CE), Ammonius (d. ca. 526 CE), Boethius (d. 524 CE) and Iamblichus (d. 325 CE).
Course report for an introductory logic course, taken at a ḥawzawī madrasa in at Najaf, Iraq duri... more Course report for an introductory logic course, taken at a ḥawzawī madrasa in at Najaf, Iraq during the Summer of 2018.
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