Reza Hadisi

Sign the Petition Canadian Academics Call to End State Violence in Iran

Here’s a petition from academics and the healthcare community in Canada, calling on the Canadian government to use legal mechanisms to put pressure on the Islamic Republic. I signed. Please consider signing.

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Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Marcus Schmücker, Austrian Academy of Sciences) - Department of Philosophy Marcus Schmücker (Austrian Academy of Sciences) does interdisciplinary work in theology and philosophy.

Join us today, 3 to 5pm (Toronto) for a talk by Marcus Schmücker on ontology, self and God in Sanskrit philosophy:
philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global...
(zoom link available)

Check out this new open access journal!

journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/nn...

It has taken a long time to bring into being, but it has some excellent articles, some original new translations, along with interesting discussions of those translations.

#philsky

Postdoctoral Researcher, Philosophy [The Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy](https://www.jyu.fi/en/humsoc/yfi) is seeking to recruit a Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy for a 3-year fixed-term contract. The contract begins...

Great post-doc and funded doctorate opportunities to work on Ishrāqī philosophy with Jari Kaukua:

Postdoc: ats.talentadore.com/apply/postdo...

Doctoral student: ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor...

Just put up this blog post in which I defend the use of the term "philosophy" to describe non-European intellectual traditions.

www.historyofphilosophy.net/philosophy-w...

#philsky #philosophy #globalphilosophy

Excited to have @thisishannahkim.bsky.social at our next Global Philosophy Series talk. This is a hybrid event; Zoom details are available in the link.

Counting the murdered Arab adults doesn't do it for some people. Here is a list of the children.

Lol

Ha, thanks! I did one round of proofreading. Surprised that I missed that :)

Thanks! There certainly are some connections to modal epistemology in the text. However, I didn't go into the details here. Already pretty long 😁

(Started writing this 6 years ago. So you might have helped me in one way or another and I forgot to thank you in the acknowledgments -- sorry!)

Reza Hadisi, Imagination and Its Object: Recovering Suhrawardī’s Suspended Images - PhilPapers What would a theory look like if it treated imagination as a primary source of knowledge? To explore this question, I turn to the 12th-century Persian philosopher Suhrawardī, who argues that ...

I have a forthcoming paper in Phil Imprint! It's an attempt to reconstruct Suhrawardī’s theory of imagination. Please admire the insane Figure 1 (it took me hours!!).

philpapers.org/rec/HADIAI

2025 Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy - Department of Philosophy Join us for a two-day colloquium comprising talks and workshops in ancient and medieval philosophy.

Please join us for the 2025 edition of the Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy this Friday / Saturday, September 19-20!

philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/toront...

2025 Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy - Department of Philosophy Join us for a two-day colloquium comprising talks and workshops in ancient and medieval philosophy.

This weekend in Toronto:

philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/toront...

New arrival: Final installment of my trilogy on the ripple effects of American pragmatism.

Looks very promising!

Philosophers Petition APA to Issue Statement on Gaza - Daily Nous "We, the undersigned members of the APA and the wider philosophical community, write to express our dismay and deep disappointment regarding the APA's conspicuous silence concerning the genocide unfol...

Philosophers are petitioning the APA to issue a statement to "condemn the ongoing atrocities and war crimes against Palestinians" and "express solidarity with Palestinian scholars, intellectuals, and students"

Book cover image showing a tree growing out of a white boat

Book contents page

Delighted to be the opening chapter of this brilliantly conceived (and beautifully covered!) new interdisciplinary collection on Space, Time, and Memory edited by the wonderful Lynn Nadel and Sara Aronowitz. Even better, the whole thing is free to download here: library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha...

Today on #HoPWaG, Karyn and I look at religious themes in Mohism! Major themes include the rejection of fate and defense of sacrificing to ancestral spirits ("ghosts").

www.historyofphilosophy.net/mohism-relig...

#mohism #chinesephilosophy #philsky

Other Epistemic Achievements Various philosophical traditions, east and west, offer rich and alternative ways of theorizing about varieties of epistemic achievements and virtues. To explore this approach, we aim to bring experts...

If you're in Toronto today and hate the sunshine, come see scholars working on ten different philosophical traditions talking about epistemic achievements! sites.google.com/view/globalp...

Karl Ameriks (1947-2025) - Daily Nous Karl Ameriks, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, has died. Professor Ameriks was well-known for his work on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, German Idealism, the history...

He was a great philosopher, but also kind and funny. At one of my first conferences as a grad student, he came and sat with me for lunch, opening with: "I'm here for the free food. How about you?"

dailynous.com/2025/04/29/k...

Research Associate/Postdoc (f/m/x) for 3 years at the ERC-Project “Avicenna Live: The Immediate Context of Avicenna’s Intellectual Formation”

3-year postdoc on Avicena. The position is part of the ERC project “Avicenna Live: The Immediate Context of Avicenna’s Intellectual Formation” (ALIVE)

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Other Epistemic Achievements Various philosophical traditions, east and west, offer rich and alternative ways of theorizing about varieties of epistemic achievements and virtues. To explore this approach, we aim to bring experts...

Now listening to Jennifer Komorowski on how to integrate Indigenous philosophy in one's curriculum
(see the bottom left here: sites.google.com/view/globalp...)
#Philosophy

BREAKING: Last night, the Harvard faculty chapter of the AAUP and the national AAUP filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump administration from illegally demanding that we keep quiet and change how we teach and research at the point of a financial gun.

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Oh thanks, Elisa! I'm glad you kept thinking about imaginary objects but sorry to take away from your break! :)

This small illustration of ringdoves in the tree trunk and lotus blossom incorporates the influence of Chinese naturalism. In contrast, the reverse side is more traditional. The innovative page layouts feature cursive <em>nashki</em> script with bold angular <em>kufic</em> script headings. Derived from Aristotelian sources, this treatise deals with the physical characteristics and organs of animals. The text was translated into Persian from Arabic for the Ilkhanid ruler Ghazan Khan (reigned 1295–1304). Roughly a dozen pages from this long-lost manuscript are known. It is dated by comparison with a similar manuscript made at Maragha, near Tabriz, in 1297 or 1299.

Qualities of Ringdoves (recto) from a Manafi' al-Hayawan (On the Usefulness of Animals) of Ibn Bakhtishu' (d. 1058) https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.382.a

Happy Nowruz, the new year as intended by nature and pure reason!

today!

Julianne Chung citing Cline 2016 on the risks of asking a non-specialist to teach Chinese philosophy (I guess that the same could apply to Sanskrit philosophy), namely that the department will then think that they don't need to hire a specialist.
(And the class may end up being shallow)

Other Epistemic Achievements Various philosophical traditions, east and west, offer rich and alternative ways of theorizing about varieties of epistemic achievements and virtues. To explore this approach, we aim to bring experts...

Toronto philosophers! Tomorrow (Mar 18, 6-8pm), you can come to UofT, JHB 100, for our workshop on **How to integrate Chinese and Sanskrit philosophy into your teaching**. In addition to wisdom, we're serving some nice Thai food for dinner!

Details here: sites.google.com/view/globalp...