Al-Kindī and Classical Islamic Modal Thought

Name: Al-Kindī and Classical Islamic Modal Thought
Start: 2024-10-29T19:00:00+03:00
End: 2024-10-29T21:00:00+03:00
Location: Oriental Hall, AUC Tahrir Square

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Tue, Oct 29, 2024

7 PM – 9 PM (GMT+3)

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Driven by the interest in criticizing Aristotelian essentialism and the need to overcome incoherencies in Aristotle’s modal logic, the development of modal metaphysics, epistemology and logic constitutes a central thread in the work of Islamic Philosophers in the classical and post-classical period. Join Ahmed El-Sayed Abdel Meguid, Assistant Professor at AUC's Department of Philosophy, as he discusses his book Rethinking al-Kindī’s Epistemology, arguing that the origins of Islamic modal thought predate Avicenna (d. 1037): Examining al-Kindī’s (d. 873) taxonomy of the theoretical sciences and his account of space and time. The lecture will demonstrate that Islamic modal thought can already be traced in late 8th-century philosophical theology (kalām).

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Ahmed El-Sayed Abdel Meguid

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy

The American University in Cairo

Ahmed Abdel Meguid is an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy, The American University in Cairo (AUC), Cairo, Egypt. He earned his BA at AUC and his MA and PhD in philosophy at Emory University. He has lectured widely in key institutions in North American and Europe including Harvard, Yale, Oxford, and was recently a fellow of the Center for Ethics at the University of Toronto. His research draws on Islamic and German philosophy focusing on metaphysics and epistemology, philosophy of mind, and social and political philosophy. He has published and has forthcoming articles in the European Journal of Political Theory, Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies, Journal of the History of Philosophy, British Journal of the History of Philosophy, and the Review of Metaphysics. He is currently finalizing two monographs titled: Being and Representation: Ibn al-‘Arabī’s Modal Metaphysics and Philosophy of Mind and Rethinking Al-Kindī’s Philosophy: the Systematization of Early Islamic Modal Epistemology.

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