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Reza Hadisi
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just another handsome philosophy prof at the university of toronto

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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
www.historyofphilosophy.net
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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.
October 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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
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 ...
philpapers.org
September 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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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.
philosophy.utoronto.ca
September 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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New arrival: Final installment of my trilogy on the ripple effects of American pragmatism.
August 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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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"
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...
dailynous.com
July 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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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...
June 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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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
May 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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...
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...
sites.google.com
May 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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...
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...
dailynous.com
April 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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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Research Associate/Postdoc (f/m/x) for 3 years at the ERC-Project “Avicenna Live: The Immediate Context of Avicenna’s Intellectual Formation”
jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
April 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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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
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...
sites.google.com
April 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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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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April 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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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
March 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Happy Nowruz, the new year as intended by nature and pure reason!
March 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
today!
Join us for a zoom talk at the Global Philosophy Research Group (@globalphilosophy.bsky.social) this Thursday, Mar20, 3-5pm EST:

Kara Richardson: Avicenna on the Principle of Sufficient Reason and the “Same Cause-Same Effect” Principle

Abstract & Zoom info: philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global...
Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Kara Richardson, Syracuse) - Department of Philosophy
Kara Richardson (Syracuse) works primarily in the history of philosophy.
philosophy.utoronto.ca
March 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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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)
March 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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...
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...
sites.google.com
March 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Join us for a zoom talk at the Global Philosophy Research Group (@globalphilosophy.bsky.social) this Thursday, Mar20, 3-5pm EST:

Kara Richardson: Avicenna on the Principle of Sufficient Reason and the “Same Cause-Same Effect” Principle

Abstract & Zoom info: philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global...
Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Kara Richardson, Syracuse) - Department of Philosophy
Kara Richardson (Syracuse) works primarily in the history of philosophy.
philosophy.utoronto.ca
March 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
OK! The world might be burning, and I'm usually too cool for this: but I'm personally excited about a boring acdemic thing!!

Here is an open-access source book on post-calssical Arabic/Persian logic and epistemology

Thanks to @histphilosophy.bsky.social, Fedor, Dustin, and other editors for this!
The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12–13th Centuries
"The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12–13th Centuries" published on 27 Jan 2025 by Brill.
brill.com
January 31, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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More than 300 medieval manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Vossiana now available in open access - Leiden University 📜
www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/01...
More than 300 medieval manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Vossiana now available in open access - Leiden University
The most important group of medieval manuscripts from the Special Collections of the University Libraries of Leiden (UBL), the Codices Vossiani Latini, is now available in open access via the Digital ...
www.library.universiteitleiden.nl
January 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
January 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM