10 I take my point of departure from Paul Redding’s thoughtful and thought11 provoking book Analytic Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian Thought, which I see as 12 a paradigm of the sort of philosophy Hegel described as ‘its time, captured in 13 thought.’ It is at once impressively and usefully learned, and philosophically 14 insightful and suggestive. Redding’s strategy is to tunnel from two...

Islamic Philosophy is a complex and multifaceted discipline that has undergone significant evolution over the centuries. In recent years, there been growing interest in study of Contemporary Philosophy, reflecting need to engage with challenges facing Muslim communities modern world. This paper aims provide critical overview current trends focusing on key debates, developments, applications dis...

Philosophy is often conceived in the Anglophone world today as a subject that focuses on questions in particular ‘‘core areas,’’ pre-eminently epistemology and metaphysics. This article argues that the contemporary conception is a new version of the scholastic ‘‘self-indulgence for the few’’ of which Dewey complained nearly a century ago. Philosophical questions evolve, and a first task for phi...

The target of this paper is twofold. The first part develops firstly a very general and abstract topic, by describing what philosophy of logic is, when it is embedded in a genuine philosophical system, and it secondly provides an explanation of the reason why intuitionism, assumed as genuine philosophical system, is in total harmony with the contemporary intuitionistic formal logic. This part e...

Parallel to psychiatry, "philosophy of mind" investigates the relationship between mind (mental domain) and body/brain (physical domain). Unlike older forms of philosophy of mind, contemporary analytical philosophy is not exclusively based on introspection and conceptual analysis, but also draws upon the empirical methods and findings of the sciences. This article outlines the conceptual framew...

istorically, the Christian tradition has heavily relied on Aristotle’s ethical philosophy to provide a conceptual basis for the articulation of its own ethical doctrines, but Aristotle’s concepts are coming up less and less frequently in contemporary ethical debates. The Roman Catholic Church, however, continues to be characterized by their reliance on Aristotelian formulations of theological d...

this article presents muhammad arkoun's (1928-2010) key ideas on ethos, civil society, and secularism. following reflections on adab, arkoun's inspiration for rethinking islamic heritage (turāth), this contribution shows how arkoun reconsiders the impact of philosophy, both in theology as well as academic scholarship. the paper displays his hopes for generating an innovative intellect...

Segregation has been widely discussed by social scientists and especially by urban geographers and planners over the past decades. However, regardless of their focus, most of these studies view segregation as an obvious case of spatial injustice. I argue that this implicit relationship between segregation, (in) justice, and space needs to be reexamined. This paper approaches this task by review...