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Nader El-Bizri is a Lebanese

Lebanon

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philosopher, historian of science, and architect

Architect

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living in Britain

United Kingdom

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Intellectual Profile

Nader El-Bizri's areas of expertise are in Phenomenology, in Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, and Architectural Humanities

Humanities

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. He focuses mainly on theories of space

Space

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/place

Location (geography)

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and of perception

Perception

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, with a particular interest in classical optics

Optics

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and perspective

Perspective (visual)

Perspective, in context of vision and visual perception, is the way in which objects appear to the eye based on their spatial attributes; or their dimensions and the position of the eye relative to the objects...

Renaissance

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traditions. His interpretation of history of science

History of science

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and philosophy

Philosophy

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is guided by contemporary debates in epistemology and ontology

Ontology

Ontology is the philosophical study of the nature of being, existence or reality as such, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations...

(metaphysics

Metaphysics

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). His philosophical analysis is principally oriented by phenomenological methods of investigation and interpretation, and his thinking is influenced by the traditions of Edmund Husserl

Edmund Husserl

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, Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological explorations of the "question of Being."...

and Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Karl Marx, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger in addition to being closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir...

. His research in history of science

History of science

The history of science is the study of the historical development of human understandings of the natural world and the domains of the social sciences....

and philosophy

Philosophy

, which also informs his investigations in architectural history, theory and criticism, is methodologically inspired by the legacies of scholars of history and philosophy of science

History and philosophy of science

The history and philosophy of science is an academic discipline that encompasses the philosophy of science and the history of science. Although many scholars in the field are trained primarily as either historians or as philosophers, there are degree-granting departments of HPS at several...

like: Gaston Bachelard

Gaston Bachelard

Gaston Bachelard was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle and epistemological break...

, Georges Canguilhem

Georges Canguilhem

Georges Canguilhem was a French philosopher and physician who specialized in epistemology and the philosophy of science .-Life and work:...

, and Alexandre Koyré

Alexandre Koyré

Alexandre Koyré , sometimes anglicised as Alexander Koiré, was a French philosopher of Russian origin who wrote on the history and philosophy of science.-Life:...

. He was also the student of Stanley Cavell

Stanley Cavell

Stanley Louis Cavell is an American philosopher. He is the Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University.-Life:...

, Hilary Putnam

Hilary Putnam

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, Robert Nozick

Robert Nozick

Robert Nozick was an American political philosopher, most prominent in the 1970s and 1980s. He was a professor at Harvard University. He is best known for his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia , a right-libertarian answer to John Rawls's A Theory of Justice...

, and A. I. Sabra

A. I. Sabra

Abdelhamid I. Sabra is a retired professor of the history of science specializing in the history of optics and science in medieval Islam....

at Harvard University

Harvard University

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, and he studied with Richard J. Bernstein

Richard J. Bernstein

Richard J. Bernstein is an American philosopher, the Vera List Professor of Philosophy and former dean of the graduate faculty at The New School....

and Agnes Heller

Ágnes Heller

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at the Graduate Faculty of The New School for Social Researchhttp://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DEVc6o-mOp4C&pg=RA4-PA282&lpg=RA4-PA282&dq=nader+el-bizri+heidegger+avicenna&source=web&ots=ZtWQWzZM7n&sig=9wviE7ZVK2v3V4JmwC7AKUeSqus&hl=en. In more recent years, he established solid academic collaborations with the phenomenologist Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka is a Polish-born American philosopher, one of the most important and continuously active contemporary phenomenologists, founder and president of The World Phenomenology Institute, and editor of the book series Analecta Husserliana, presently published by...

(Editor of Analecta Husserliana and President of The World Phenomenology Institute, New Hampshire, USA).http://www.springer.com/series/6137 Moreover, El-Bizri's interpretation of the history of the exact sciences has been influenced by the legacy of the mathematician, historian and philosopher of science: Roshdi Rashed (CNRS, Paris).

Academic and Professional Profile

Nader El-Bizri is a Visiting Professor of Visual Studies at the University of Lincoln

University of Lincoln

The University of Lincoln is an English university founded in 1992, with origins tracing back to the foundation and association with the Hull School of Art 1861....

.http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/lsa/research/csae_cca.htm He is also a senior Research Associate in Philosophy at The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London; also acting as General Editor (and Managing Editor ex officio) of a book series published by Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

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in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London; titled: Epistles of the Brethren of Purity Series رسائل إخوان الصفاء http://www.iis.ac.uk/view_person.asp?ID=100138&type=user,http://www.iis.ac.uk/view_article.asp?ContentID=105218 He is also the Co-Manager of a joint institutional project between The Institute of Ismaili Studies in London and the Institut Français du Proche Orient (IFPO) in Damascus

Damascus

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(Syria

Syria

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), and acts as the Coordinator and Member of the Editorial Board of The Institute of Ismaili Studies Texts and Translations Series.http://www.iis.ac.uk/view_person.asp?ID=100138&type=user,http://www.iis.ac.uk/view_article.asp?ContentID=104893. El-Bizri has been an Affiliated Research Scholar and Lecturer at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

since 1999 (primarily lecturing on Arabic sciences and philosophy),http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/dept/elbizri.html and he has also been a Visiting Lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Cambridge (Islamic Architecture). He furthermore holds a Chercheur Associé post at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Centre national de la recherche scientifique

The National Center of Scientific Research is the largest governmental research organization in France and the largest fundamental science agency in Europe....

(CNRS) in Paris, and he was previously a lecturer in Architecture

Architecture

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at the University of Nottingham

University of Nottingham

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, and taught at Harvard University and the American University of Beirut. Moreover, he is an elected member of the Steering Committee of the Société Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences et des Philosophies Arabes et Islamiques (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris),http://www.sihspai.umd.edu/splashpage.asp and he is an active member of several societies, including The American Philosophical Association

American Philosophical Association

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(APA), The British Society for Phenomenology, the International Husserl and Phenomenological Research Society, and the Architectural Humanities Research Association (British Universities Consortium). In addition, he is the Co-Editor of a book series in phenomenology (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands),http://www.springer.com/series/6137, and as Section Editor (Islam) of the Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions (SPRINGER

Springer

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, Dordrecht), as well as being a member of the Editorial Board of a book series on philosophy and architecture (Toposophia; Lexington Books, Maryland, USA). He is also a Member of the Editorial Board of the distinguished academic journal: Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, which is published by Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

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. Among his other offices, he is also a board member on Fundamentals of Scientific Research at The Arab Organization for Translation in Beirut, and a member of the board of Consulting Editors of the Encyclopaedia Islamica (published by E. J. Brill, Leiden), as well as being the European Representative of the Equipe d’Etude et de Recherche sur le Patrimoine Scientifique Arabe, which is part of the Lebanese CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). He has also been a contributor to the Cultural and Classics Supplements of the daily Arabic international newspaper Al-Hayat (London; Beirut) الحياة .http://www.iis.ac.uk/view_person.asp?ID=100138&type=user,http://www.salaam.co.uk/themeofthemonth/september03_index.php?l=9#naderElbizri

Besides his academic undertakings Nader El-Bizri has over eleven years of professional architectural design and consulting experience in offices and institutions in Geneva

Geneva

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, London

London

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, Cambridge

Cambridge

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, New York

New York

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, Boston

Boston

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and Beirut

Beirut

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(He registered as Chartered Architect in 1990 as part of the Ordre des Ingénieurs et Architectes, Beirut

Beirut

, Lebanon

Lebanon

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Selected publications

The Phenomenological Quest Between Avicenna
Avicenna
Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā , commonly known as Ibn Sīnā or by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian polymath, who wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived...

and Heidegger (Binghamton, N.Y.: Global Publications, SUNY, 2000)http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20071108.shtml
'Avicenna
Avicenna
Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā , commonly known as Ibn Sīnā or by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian polymath, who wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived...

and Essentialism
Essentialism
In philosophy, essentialism is the view that, for any specific kind of entity, there is a set of characteristics or properties all of which any entity of that kind must possess. Therefore all things can be precisely defined or described...

', Review of Metaphysics 54 (2001), 753-778 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20071108.shtml
'Qui-êtes vous Khôra?: Receiving Plato
Plato
Plato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the...

's Timaeus, Existentia Meletai-Sophias 11 (2001), 473-490
'A Phenomenological Account of the Ontological Problem of Space
Space
Space is the boundless, three-dimensional extent in which objects and events occur and have relative position and direction. Physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of a boundless four-dimensional continuum...

', Existentia Meletai-Sophias 12 (2002), 345-364
'Avicenna
Avicenna
Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā , commonly known as Ibn Sīnā or by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian polymath, who wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived...

's De Anima Between Aristotle
Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology...

and Husserl', in The Passions of the Soul in the Metamorphosis of Becoming, ed. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003), 67-89 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20071108.shtml
'Religion
Religion
Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values. Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to...

and Measure', Phenomenological Inquiry 27 (2003), 128-155
'Variations autour de la notion d'expérience dans la pensée arabe', in L'expérience, collection les mots du monde, sous la direction de N. Tazi, traduit par M. Saint-Upéry (Paris: Éditions la Découverte, 2004), 39-58
'Ontopoièsis and the Interpretation of Plato
Plato
Plato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the...

's Khôra, Analecta Husserliana 83 (2004), 25-45
On Kai Khora
Khora
Khôra is a philosophical term described by Plato in Timaeus as a receptacle, a space, or an interval. It is neither being nor nonbeing but an interval between in which the "forms" were originally held...

: Situating Heidegger between the Sophist and the Timaeus
Timaeus (dialogue)
Timaeus is one of Plato's dialogues, mostly in the form of a long monologue given by the title character, written circa 360 BC. The work puts forward speculation on the nature of the physical world and human beings. It is followed by the dialogue Critias.Speakers of the dialogue are Socrates,...

,' Studia Phaenomenologica 4 (2004), 73-98
'La perception de la profondeur: Alhazen, Berkeley, et Merleau-Ponty', Oriens-Occidens: Cahiers du centre d'histoire des sciences et des philosophies arabes et médiévales, CNRS. 5 (2004), 171-184
'The Varieties of Experience in Arabic Thought', in Keywords: Experience, eds. Nadia Tazi et al. (New York: Other Press, 2004), 43-70 — (Published also in Arabic by the Centre Culturel Arabe in 2005; 13-35)
'A Philosophical Perspective on Alhazen's Optics
Optics
Optics is the branch of physics which involves the behavior and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behavior of visible, ultraviolet, and infrared light...

', Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 15 (2005), 189-218
'The Conceptions of Nature
Nature
Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general...

in Arabic Thought', in Nature (Keywords Series), ed. Nadia Tazi (New York: Other Press, 2005), 63-92
‘Microcosm
Macrocosm and microcosm
Macrocosm and microcosm is an ancient Greek Neo-Platonic schema of seeing the same patterns reproduced in all levels of the cosmos, from the largest scale all the way down to the smallest scale...

and Macrocosm: A Tentative Encounter between Graeco-Arabic Philosophy and Phenomenology’, in Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology on the Perennial Issue of Microcosm and Macrocosm, ed. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006), 3-23
'Being and Necessity: A Phenomenological Investigation of Avicenna
Avicenna
Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā , commonly known as Ibn Sīnā or by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian polymath, who wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived...

's Metaphysics
Metaphysics
Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world, although the term is not easily defined. Traditionally, metaphysics attempts to answer two basic questions in the broadest possible terms:...

and Cosmology
Cosmology
Cosmology is the discipline that deals with the nature of the Universe as a whole. Cosmologists seek to understand the origin, evolution, structure, and ultimate fate of the Universe at large, as well as the natural laws that keep it in order...

', in Islamic Philosophy
Islamic philosophy
Islamic philosophy is a branch of Islamic studies. It is the continuous search for Hekma in the light of Islamic view of life, universe, ethics, society, and so on...

and Occidental Phenomenology on the Perennial Issue of Microcosm and Macrocosm, ed. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006), 243-261 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20071108.shtml
'Uneasy Meditations following Levinas
Emmanuel Lévinas
Emmanuel Levinas was a Lithuanian-born French Jewish philosopher and Talmudic commentator.-Life:Emanuelis Levinas received a traditional Jewish education in Lithuania...

', Studia Phaenomenologica 6 (2006), 293-315
'Being-towards-death
Death
Death is the permanent termination of the biological functions that sustain a living organism. Phenomena which commonly bring about death include old age, predation, malnutrition, disease, and accidents or trauma resulting in terminal injury....

: on Martyrdom and Islam
Islam
Islam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...

', Cristianesimo nella storia 27 (2006), 249-279
'In Defence of the Sovereignty of Philosophy: al-Baghdadi's Critique of Ibn al-Haytham's Geometrisation of Place', Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 17 (2007), 57-80
‘Imagination
Imagination
Imagination, also called the faculty of imagining, is the ability of forming mental images, sensations and concepts, in a moment when they are not perceived through sight, hearing or other senses...

and Architectural Representations’, in From Models to Drawings: Imagination and Representation
Representation (arts)
Representation is the use of signs that stand in for and take the place of something else. It is through representation that people organize the world and reality through the act of naming its elements...

in Architecture
Architecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...

, eds. Marco Frascari, Jonathan Hale, Bradley Starkey (London : Routledge, 2007), 34-42
‘Some Phenomenological and Classical Corollaries on Time
Time
Time is a part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change such as the motions of objects....

’, in Timing and Temporality
Temporality
Temporality is a term often used in philosophy in talking about the way time is. The traditional mode of temporality is a linear procession of past, present, and future....

in Islamic Philosophy
Islamic philosophy
Islamic philosophy is a branch of Islamic studies. It is the continuous search for Hekma in the light of Islamic view of life, universe, ethics, society, and so on...

and Phenomenology of Life
Life
Life is a characteristic that distinguishes objects that have signaling and self-sustaining processes from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased , or else because they lack such functions and are classified as inanimate...

, ed. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2007), 137-155
‘Préface’, in Ibn Taymiyya, Les Saints du Mont Liban: Absence, jihâd et spiritualité, entre la montagne et la cité. Cinq fetwas traduits de l’arabe, introduits et annotés par Yahya Michot -- Fetwas d'Ibn Taymiyya 5 (Beyrouth - Paris: Editions ALBOURAQ – La Librairie de l’Orient, 2007), vii-xviii
‘God: essence and attributes’, in The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology
Theology
Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...

, ed. Tim Winter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 121-140
‘Le problème de l’espace: approches optique, géométrique et phénoménologique’, in Oggetto e spazio. Fenomenologia dell'oggetto, forma e cosa dai secoli XIII-XIV ai post-cartesiani, eds. Graziella Federici Vescovini and Orsola Rignani. Micrologus Library 24 (Firenze: SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2008), 59-70
‘Hermeneutics and Tradition: Re-gathering the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity ’, in Islam ve Klasik, ed. Sami Erdem. Klasik 44 (Istanbul: Bilim ve Sanat Vakfi, 2008), 339-360
Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. The Ikhwan al-Safa' and their Rasa'il: An Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press
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, 2008). Editor of the book, and Contributor of the 'Prologue', 1-32, and of Chapter 7: 'Epistolary Prolegomena: On Arithmetic and Geometry', 180-213
Revision of the English translation of Khwārizmī's Kitāb al-Jabr wa-al-muqābala, in: Roshdi Rashed, Al-Khwārizmī: The Beginnings of Algebra (London–Beirut: Saqi
Saqi Books
Saqi Books is an independent UK publisher co-founded in 1984 by author and feminist Mai Ghoussoub to "print quality academic and general interest books on the Middle East". It now claims to be "the UK's largest publisher of Middle Eastern and Arabic titles"...

, 2009), 81-376
'Foreword', in Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. The Case of the Animals versus Man before the King of the Jinn. An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistle 22, ed. trans. Lenn E. Goodman and Richard McGregor (Oxford: Oxford University Press, in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2009), XVII-XXV
'Ibn al-Haytham et le problème de la couleur', Oriens-Occidens: Cahiers du centre d'histoire des sciences et des philosophies arabes et médiévales, C.N.R.S. 7 (2009), 201-226
'Creative inspirations or intellectual impasses? Reflections on relationships between architecture and the humanities', in The Humanities in Architectural Design: A Contemporary and Historical Perspective, eds. Soumyen Bandyopadhyay, Jane Lomholt, Nicholas Temple and Renée Tobe (London: Routledge, 2010), 123-135
'The Labyrinth of Philosophy in Islam', Comparative Philosophy 1.2 (2010), 3-23
'Al-Sīnawiyya wa-naqd Hāydighir li-tārīkh al-mītāfīzīqā', al-Maĥajja 21 (2010), 119-140
'Corollaries on Space and Time in Arabic Sciences and Philosophy', in Chrono-Topologies: Hybrid Spatialities and Multiple Temporalities, ed. Leslie Kavanaugh (Amestredam: Rodopi Press, 2010), 63-78
'Classical Optics and the Perspectiva Traditions Leading to the Renaissance', in Renaissance Theories of Vision, eds. Charles Carman and John Hendrix (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010), 11-30
'Phenomenological Directives on Reason and Spirit: Rational Discourses and Spiritual Inspirations', in Reason and Spirit, and the Sacral in the New Enlightenment, ed. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (Dordrecht-Berlin: Springer, 2011), 185-193
'The Groundbreaking Physics of Averroes', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 42 (2011), 210-214
'Ibn Sīnā’s Ontology and the Question of Being’, Ishrāq: Islamic Philosophy Yearbook 2 (2011), 222-237
'Being at Home Among Things: Heidegger’s Reflections on Dwelling', Environment, Space, Place 3 (2011), 47-71

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