Conceptual divergence—canons and taboos—and critique: reflections on explanatory categories

Explanatory Identities and Conceptual Change

Although mind-brain identity remains controversial, many other identities of ordinary things with scientific ones are well established. For example, air is a mixture of gases, water is H2O, and fire is rapid oxidation. This paper examines the history of 15 important identifications: air, blood, cloud, earth, electricity, fire, gold, heat, light, lightning, magnetism, salt, star, thunder, and wa...

Immanent critique and Islam: Anthropological reflections

This article offers an anthropological outline of immanent critique in Islamic traditions. In addressing the question – what is immanent critique? – it dwells on the interrelationships amongst the Enlightenment’s notion of reason, critique, and Islam. My main contention is that to construe the Western notion of critique derived from Enlightenment’s specific conceptualization of reason as critiq...

On closure operators, reflections and protolocalisations in Goursat categories

By defining a closure operator on effective equivalence relations in a regular category C, it is possible to establish a bijective correspondence between these closure operators and the regular epireflective subcategories of C, on the model of the closure operators on kernels in homological categories [5]. When C is an exact Goursat category [6], this correspondence restricts to a bijection bet...

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“Contesting the Conceptual Categories ‘Islamic Civilization, Art or Masterpiece: A Reflection on the Problem”

Together with a few recent publications a number of the online Journal of Art Historiography (June 6, 2012) dedicated to “Islamic Art Historiography” offers a glimpse at the debates that since roughly a decade stir up Islamic art studies as they are practiced in the West. These debates concern the conceptual framework used to both investigate and show in public i...