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According to the mission statement of the site, we aim primarily at serving contemporary Arabic/Islamic thought scholars. So the list presented here is meant to be as a reference to the Arabic reviews presented in Arabic for students and scholars. The selected philosophy research papers  are already published on the net, the selection is based on the interest of  Arabic scholars. Most of these papers are linked to the source of which the paper is posted. Though it is possible, in the future,  to post these papers  directly on our site.

  1. The Future of Philosophy

1.    Searle, John, 2003, Philosophy in a new century, in Philosophy in America at the turn of the century ,  Journal of Philosophical Research, Philosophy Documentation Center, pp. 3–22, .

2.    McGinn, Colin, The Problem of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, 76, 1994,  133-156

3.    Heylighen F., P. Cilliers, & C. Gershenson (2007): Complexity and Philosophy, in: Jan Bogg and Robert Geyer (editors), Complexity, Science and Society, (Radcliffe Publishing, Oxford)

4.    Kaufman, Daniel,  "Knowledge, Wisdom, and the Philosopher", , Philosophy, 81, 2006, p 129-151.

5. Harman, Gilbert (2003), " The Future of the A Priori", philosophy in America at the turn of the century, Philosophy Documentation Center, Pp. 23 – 34.

b. On Western Modernity

  1. Volker H. Schmidt, 2006,  Multiple Modernities or Varieties of Modernity? ,  Current Sociology; 54; 77 - 97.

  2.   Johnson, Pauline , Habermas’s Search for the Public Sphere, European Journal of Social Theory, 2001, 4(2): 215–236.

  3. Goran Therborn, 2003, "Entangled Modernities ", European Journal of Social Theory 6(3): 293–305.

c.  Mind/Body Problem

1.      Lycan, William, Chomsky on the Mind–Body Problem", in L.M. Antony and N. Hornstein (eds.), Chomsky and his Critics, 2003, (Oxford: Basil Blackwell), pp. 11-28

2.Kirk Ludwig, "The Mind-Body Problem: An Overview," in The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Mind, eds. T. Warfield and S. Stich, Blackwell, 2003, pp. 1-46.

3.      Nagel, Thomas,  "Conceiving the impossible and the mind-body problem", Royal Institute of Philosophy annual lecture, given in London on February 18, 1998, published in Philosophy vol. 73 no. 285, July 1998, pp 337-352.

4.     Crane, Tim,  The significance of emergence, in: Barry Loewer and Grant Gillett (eds.) Physicalism and its Discontents (Cambridge University Press 2001). 

5.    Campbell,   John, Philosophy of mind, , in philosophy of science today by Peter Clark and Katherine Hawley (eds.), 2003, OUP p131-146.

6.      Chalmers, David.Varieties of Emergence ,. In (P. Clayton and P. Davies, eds) The Re-Emergence of Emergence. Oxford University Press, 2006.

7.      Emmeche, C., Køppe , S., Stjernfelt , F., Explaining emergence-towards an ontology of levels. , in: Journal for General Philosophy of Science 28: 83-119 (1997).     

8.      Crane, Tim. The Mental Causation Debate, , Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume  69, 1995, 211-236.

 

  1. Philosophy of Science

1. Sosa, Ernest, 2007, "Experimental philosophy and philosophical intuition", Philosophical Studies, 132:99–107. (Abstract).

2. Rom Harre, 2001, Dispositions and Powers, in W.H. Newton-Smith, "A Companion to the Philosophy of Science", Blckwell Companions to Philsophy, Blackwell Publishers, Pp. 97-101.

  3. Cartwright , Nancy, with   Alexandrova, A.,  Efstathiou, S.  Hamilton, A., and  Muntean, I.,  Laws’ in Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy , Michael Smith and Frank Jackson (eds), 2005, Pp. 792-818,

4. Stapp,  Henry. Quantum Mechanics and the Role of Mind in Nature, , Foundations of Physics 31, 1465-99 (2001).

5.      Strawson, Galen. Real materialism , in Chomsky and his Critics, edited by Louise Antony and Norbert Hornstein (Blackwell 2003).

6.      Papineau, David. The Rise of Physicalism, , in M W F Stone;  Jonathan Wolff;  NetLibrary, Inc.J. Wolff (ed) The Proper Ambition of Science. Routledge, Pp. 174-208, 2000. 

7.      Bishop, Robert. Rethinking Determinism, in Social Science,", with Frank Richardson in" Between Chance and Choice" (Imprint Academic, 2002, pp. 425-45).

8.      Bourdieu, Pierre. The Peculiar History of Scientific Reason,  Sociological Forum, Volume 6, Issue 1 , Mar. 1991, 3-26.

9.  Crow Douglas, Karim.        Reason,  Physicalism,  and  Islam,   August 2003, International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization – IIUM, Kuala Lumpur,  Malaysia

10.      Feyerabend, Paul. Consolations for the Specialist: the role of reason in science, , in (Lakatos, I. and Musgrave, A. (eds.) Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. Cambridge University Press (1970).

11.      Thompson, Ian. Real Dispositions in the Physical World, , in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 39 (1988) 67-7.

  1.  The Problem of Consciuosness

1. Kriegel, Uriah ,    Philosophical Theories of Consciousness, Contemporary Western Perspectives, , in Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness (edited by M. Moscovitch, E. Thomspon, and P.D. Zelato).2006,  Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP, p. 35-66.

2.      Seager, William.. “Consciousness, information, and Panpsychism.” Journal of Consciousness Studies 2:272-88. 1995.

3.     Chalmers, David  Consciousness and its Place in Nature , in (S. Stich and F. Warfield, eds) Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Mind (Blackwell, 2003).  

 

  1.  Post-Modernism

1.      Lyotard, Jean-Francois. (1984).  The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Manchester University Press.

2.    Alcoff, Linda Martin  " Foucault’s Philosophy of Science: Structures of Truth/Structures of Power",  , in Blackwell Companion to Continental Philosophies of Science edited by Gary Gutting, Blackwell 2005, 211-223.

3.Antonio,   Robert      After Postmodernism: Reactionary Tribalism, , American journal of sociology 106:11, 40-87.

  1. The Concept of Belief

1.Andrew Lugg, (1983), "Explaining Scientific Beliefs: The Rationalist's Strategy Re-examined", Philosophy of the Social Sciences, no. 13, Pp. 265-287.

2.  Michael M.Gorman  (1993), "Hume’s Theory of Belief", Hume Studies V. XIX, No. 1 Pp. 89-102.

3. Brown, Curtis ,    What Is a Belief State? in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 10 (1986): 357-78.

4. Brown, Curtis ,     Direct and indirect belief in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (1992): 289-316.

5. Tuomela, Raimo ,     Belief versus Acceptance, Philosophical Explorations 2, 2000, 122-137.

6. Haas-Spohn,Ulrike and   Spohn, Wolfgang,    Concepts Are Beliefs About Essences, , in: R. Stuhlmann-Laeisz, A, Newen, U. Nortmann (eds.),Proceedings of an International Symposium "Gottlob Frege: Philosophy of Logic, Language and Knowledg, Stanford, CSLI Publications, 2001, pp. 287-316.

  1. Complexity and Self Organizing Systems

1.      Collier,  John ,What is Autonomy?,  International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems (2002): CASY 2001 - Fifth International Conference.

2.     Morin, Edgar, Restricted complexity, general complexity, Presented at the Colloquium “Intelligence de la complexit´e : ´epist´emologie et pragmatique”, erisy-La-Salle, France, June 26th, 2005”. Translated from French by Carlos Gershenson

3.     Reason,Peter,  A Participatory Worldview,  Resurgence, 168, 42-44. (1998).

4.     O'Connor, Timothy , Agent Causation,  in T. O'Connor, ed., Agents, Causes, and Events: Essays on Indeterminism and Free Will, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 173-200.

5.   Kauffman,  Stuart ,   Molecular autonomous agents, Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. Lond. A (2003) 361, 1089-1099.

  1. Philosophy of Language

1. Giaquinto, M. 2008, "The Linguistic View of a Priori Knowledge", The Royal Institute of Philosophy, Philosophy 83, Pp. 89-111. 

2. Noam Chomsky, 1990, "Language and Problems of Knowledge", The Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press, Pp. 558 - 577.

3. Searle,   John R., What is Language: Some Preliminary Remarks, ', in "John Searle's Philosophy of Language-Force, Meaning and Mind, Edited by Savas L. Tsohatzidis, Cambridge University Press.

  1. Sociology of Science

1. Roger Trigg, 1978, "The sociology of knowledge", Philosophy of the social sciences, no. 8; Pp. 289 -298.

2. Shapin,   Steven,  Here and Everywhere: Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, Annual Review of Sociology volume 21, 1995, 289-321.

3.   Rouse, , Joseph,  What Are Cultural Studies of Scientific Knowledge?,  Configurations, 1992, 1.1:57-94.

  1. Philosophy of Worldviews

Mark E. Koltko-Rivera, The Psychology of Worldviews, Review of General Psychology, 2004, Vol. 8, No. 1, 3–58.

L. Political Philosophy

  1. Engin F. Isin and Alexandre Lefebvre, 2005, The Gift of Law Greek Euergetism and Ottoman Waqf, European Journal of Social Theory 8(1): 5–23.

  2. Fabienne Peter, 2007, "Democratic legitimacy and proceduralist social
    epistemology    ", politics,philosophy & economics, 10 6(3) 329–353.