14/05/2026
🧐 Philosophy 🧐
1️⃣ The Final Word: Al-Dawani and the Liar Paradox in the Islamic World
The book explores connections in the tradition between the Liar and topics in philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and theological ethics. These include theories of truth, the principle of bivalence, puzzles about negation and empty terms, the Frege-Geach problem, theories of quotation, the distinction between declarative and non-declarative speech acts, and the opposition between truth as good and falsehood as evil.
2️⃣ Islam and Natural Philosophy
In this book, the author presents part of the thought of the teachers of Kalam, which concerns their views of the natural world formulated in a modern context of expressions. Such a formulation is necessary to understand the true meaning and aims of kalam philosophy.
3️⃣ The Art of Disputation in Islam
Dialectical Thinking and The Art of Disputation is specifically espoused in the intellectual tradition of Islam in the form of a discipline known as Adab al-Bahth wa al-Munazarah (the Procedure of Inquiry and Debate), a creative synthesis of logic and juridical dialectics aimed at arriving at truth via a disciplined debate, in which a proposition and its proof can be cross-examined by the disputants.
4️⃣ Metaphysical Institutions: Islam and the Modern Project
Caner K. Dagli explores the ultimate nature of the realities we call religions, cultures, civilizations, and traditions through the lens of a particular question often limited to religious studies, history, and anthropology, namely: "What is Islam?"
