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The World Congress Of Mulla Sadra

1999-Tehran

Comparative Philosophy

Sunday, MAY 23, 1999

Chair: A.Shariatmadari

Vice-Chair: R.Guerrero & E.Wolf-Gazo

TIME	SPEAKER	TITLE
15:00	M. Khamenei	The Spirit of Plato in Sadra's Philosophy
15:30	W. Chittick	The Practice of Philosophy in Baba Afdal and Mulla Sadra
16:00	H. Ziai	Sadr al-Muta'allihin and the Question of Knowing and Being
16:30	Ter Haar	Saint Anselm of Canterbury and Mulla Sadra
17:00	Break
17:30	D. Dakake	Sadr al Din al-Shirazi and Benedict Spinoza: An Epistemological and Ontological Comparison
18:00	G. Kaka'i	The Unity of Being and Its Philosophical Demonstrability in Ibn Arabi and Mulla Sadra
18:30	Ma Ping	Sa'di's Golestan and its Influence on Chinese Muslims
19:00	M. Dehbashi	Mulla Sadra's Systematic Ontology and its Reflection in Modem Physics
19:30	End of Session

General Session

Sunday, 23 MAY 1999

Chair: Seyed.M.Khamenei

Vice-Chair: Gh.Reza A'awani/ W.Chittick Ahmed Ahmadi/ W.Madelung

TIME	SPEAKER	TITLE
9:00	J. Amoli	Mulla Sadra and Transcendent Philosophy
9:40	J. Van Ess	Atomism in Early Islamic Thought and its Relation to pre-Islamic Iranian Thinking
10:20	H. Hasanzadeh	Critical Appraisal of Trans-Substantial Motion
10:30	Break
11:00	H. Landolt	Henry Corbin's Understanding of Mulla Sadra
11:30	R.D.Ardakani	Mulla Sadra's Explication of Farabi's First Head of the State
12:00	J. Margolis	An Overview of Recent Western Philosophy
12:30	Break

Gnosis and Sufism

Sunday, MAY 23, 1999

Chair: F.Tabatabai

Vice-Chair: D.Gril & M.Hermansen

TIME	SPEAKER	TITLE
9:30	D. Buchman	Shingon Buddhism and the Sufi Dimension of Islam: Preliminary Notes on the Shared Religious Vision of Kukai and Ibn Arabi
10:00	A. Shaykhul-islami	Existence According to Ibn Arabi and Mulla Sadra
10:30	R. Shah-kazemi	Who or What Realizes the Absolute in Mystical Realization?
11:00	Break
11:30	C. Janes	Dawn and Paradise in the Poetry of Some Sufis
12:00	M. Kilic	Mulla Sadra as an Arbiter between Two Muslim Mystics: Ibn Arabi and Ala'uddoleh Semnani
12:30	E. Clark	The Art of the Islamic Prayer-Carpet: Content and Symbolism
13:00	N. Gharavi Naeeni	Mulla Sadra and Ilm al-Hadith
14:30	End of Session
15:00	H. Nadimi	Some Reflections on the Nature of Art

Issue in Western Philosophy

Sunday, MAY 23, 1999

Chair: G. Meggle

Vice-Chair: S. Etemad

TIME	SPEAKER	TITLE
15:00	A. Ahmadi	Sense Perception and its Relation to Universality and Induction
15:40	H. M. Bracken	Empiricism/ Rationalism
16:20	Gh. Haddad Adel	Ontology and Epistemology After Kant
17:00	Break
18:10	D. P. Lackey	The Universe as a Philosophical Concept
18:50	K. Srinivas	Wittgenstein on Religious and Scientific Beliefs
19:30	End of Session

Philosophy of Science

Sunday, MAY 23, 1999

Chair: G. Gates

Vice-Chair: M. Ardeshir

TIME	SPEAKER	TITLE
15:00	D. Ihde	Visualism in Science
15:40	L. Ropolyi	Theory as Story
16:20	R. P. Crease	What is an Artifact?
17:00	Break
17:30	P. Baert	Aims and Philosophy of Social Sciences
18:10	A. Paya	'Intuition": Do We Really Need It In our Knowledge-Gathering Pursuit ?
18:50	End of Session

Transcendent Philosophy of Mulla Sadra

Sunday, MAY 23, 1999

Chair: M.Mohaqqiq Damad

Vice-Chair: R. Davary & H. Hanafi

TIME	SPEAKER	TITLE
15:00	G. A'awani	The Concept and the Reality of Existence
15:30	J. Morris	Mulla Sadra's Conception of the Barzakh and the Emerging Science of Spirituality
16:00	G. Ebrahimi Dinani	The Arguments of Mulla Sadra for the Principiality of Existence
16:30	B. Kuspinar	Mulla Sadra's Commentary on the Verse of Light
17:00	Break
17:30	A. Beheshti	The Knowledge of the Necessary Being According to Mulla Sadra
18:00	0. Leaman	Mulla Sadra's Doctrine of Existence and the Objectivity of Imagination in Islamic Philosophy
18:30	R. Akbarian	The Existential Explication of Time in Mulla Sadra's Philosophical System
19:00	Wahidul Ansari	Ethics, Economics, and the Environmental Crisis: Philosophy of Man and Nature in the Tradition of Mulla Sadra
19:30	End of Session

Comparative Philosophy

Monday, MAY 24, 1999

Chair: H.Ziai

Vice-Chair: Ter Haar & M.Dehbashi

TIME	SPEAKER	TITLE
9:00	Z. Mostafavi	The Platonic Forms as Viewed by Mulla Sadra
9:30	D. Burrell	Thomas Aquinas and Mulla Sadra Shirazi and the Primacy of Esse/Wujud in Philosophical Theology
10:00	H. Daiber	Mulla Sadra on the Problem of Creation and the Role of Greek Philosophers
10:30	R. Guerrero	The Language of Being: From Ibn Sina to Mulla Sadra
11:00	Break
11:30	M. Newell	A Preliminary Comparative Study of the Ontological Methodology of Mulla Sadra and Heidegger
12:00	L. Stone	A Comparison of the Visionary Element in the Works of Attar, Suhrawardi, and Mulla Sadra
12:30	I. Kalin	Between Physics and Metaphysics: Mulla Sadra on Nature (Tabi'ah)
13:00	Lunch Break
14:30	Bodiur Rahman	Imam Hasan al-Basri and Mulla Sadra: A Comparative Study of their Concepts of Freedom of Choice
15:00	K. Kennedy	Ibn Sina's Influence on Mulla Sadra's Ontology
15:30	C. Sawyer	Illumination, Ancient and Modern: A Comparison of the Thought of Jacob Boehme and the School of Isfahan
l6:00	A. Qa'imi Amiri	The Foundations of Education in Islamic Philosophy and in Modern Western Education
16:30	Break
17:00	Li Zheng Zhong	A Comparative Study of Confucian and Islamic Philosophy
17:30	S. Murata	Islamic Thinking in Chinese
18:00	N. B. G. Qazi	Mulla Sadra's Falsafat al-Wujud and Heidegger's Seinsphilosephie
18:30	A Tourani	God in Sadra and Tillich
19:00	End of Session

Gnosis and Sufism

Monday, MAY 24, 1999

Chair: H.Nadimi

Vice-Chair: M.Kilic & Jianping Wang

TIME	SPEAKER	TITLE
9:00	Ms. V. Hoffman	Al-Farabi's "True King" and Mulla Sadra's Path: Human Perfection and Divine Action in Islamic Esoteric Traditions
9:30	D. Gril	The Commentaries of Surah al-Fatiha and the Theory of Existence According to Ibn 'Arabi
10:00	L. Lopez-Barait	Spanish Mysticism's Debt to Sufism: A Shared Symbology
10:30	Ding Kejia	The Influence of Persian Sufi Manuscripts upon Chinese Muslims
11:00	Break
11:30	M. Bina Motlagh	Plato's Philosophy of Language
12:00	L. Ballanfat	Considerations sur la conception du coeur chez Mulla Sadra
12:30	M. Fesharaki	The Ontological Glorification of All Beings to God from Sadra's Viewpoint as Compared with Rumi
13:00	Lunch Break
14:30	N. Pourjavadi	The Spirituality of Hallaj and Bayazid in the Works of Mulla Sadra
15:00	Ms. Hermansen	Mulla Sadra's Commentary of The Light Verse
15:30	0. Safi	Mulla Sadra's Synthesis of Ibn Arabi and Moulavi
16:00	Dagli	Ali and the Flourishing of Islamic Esoterism
16:30	Break
17:30	H. Rahim	A Study of Unity and Plurality in Mulla Sadra and Rumi
18:00	F. Gharaie	Ramanuja and Mulla Sadra
18:00	H. Farzam	Some Observation Concerning Sadrean Gnosis
18:30	Abdu-Salim
19:00	End of Session

Islamic Philosophy

Monday, MAY 24, 1999

Chair: Kh.Baqeri

Vice-Chair: M.Takeshita & I.Abu Bakar

TIME	SPEAKER	TITLE
9:00	K. Shanechi	Resurrection
9:30	W. Madelung	The Last Phase of the Mu'tazilla: Abu l-Husayn al-Basri and His School
10:00	D. Peterson	Ascension Soteriology and the Great Chain of Being
10:30	M. Suheyl Umar
11:00	Break
11:30	M. S. Khan	The Javidan Khirad of Miskawayh: A Persian Book on Ethics and Moral Philosophy
12:00	H. N. Esfahani	A Survey of the Ontological Proof
12:30	Koroglu	Ibn Bajjahs Political Philosophy
13:00	Lunch Break
14:30	M. J. Shari'ati	Is Mulla Sadra an Innovator or a Mere Compiler?
15:00	A. Bouhsane	The Ideas of Paradigm
15:30	Sh. A'awani	Man's Dignity and Worth in the Transcendent Philosophy of Shirazi
16:00	A. J. Delvari	Some Salient Features of Sadra's Philosophy as Compared with Some Recent Western Philosophical Theories
16:30	Break
17:00	Y. Shayegan	The Problem of Being In Aristotle, Alexander D'ophrodise, Avicenna and Mulla Sadra
17:30	A. Douay	The Philosophy of Knowledge
18:00	H. Miandary	The Theory of Trans-substantial Motion and Its Implications for Moral Philosophy and Ethics
18:30	Hakak	A Criticism of Hume's Theory of the Origin of Ideas from the Perspective of the Transcendent Philosophy of Mulla Sadra
19:00	End of Session

Issue in Western Philosophy

Monday, MAY 24, 1999

Chair: H.M.Bracken

Vice-Chair: A.Gheissari

TIME	SPEAKER	TITLE
9 :00	R. Arrocha	Ethics and Moral Philosophy
9:40	L. Honnefeider	Bioethics and Human Genetics: Consensus Formation in Europe
10:20	J. Dancy	Understanding Tolerance
11:00	Break
11:30	V. Held	Rights and the Presumption of Care
12:10	H. M. Sass	Death with Dignity: Significance of Religious Beliefs in End-of-Life Medical Decision-Making
12:50	Lunch Break
14:30	S. A. Schwarzenbach	Contradictions in Aristotle's Theory of the First Soul
15:10	T. 0. Zubia	Aristotelian Western Criticisms of the xxth Century: A Radical Change of Paradigm
15:50	Ms. H. Barnes	Sartre's View of Subjectivity, Consciousness, and Self: Some Philosophical and Practical Consequences
16:30	Break
17:00	L. Stevenson	Kant on Human Nature
17:40	W. L. McBride	Sartre's Response to Kants Question 'What May I Hope?"
18:20	M. T. Messbah Yazdi	Existence of the Copula
19:00	Break and End

Philosophy of Science

Monday, MAY 24, 1999

Chair: P.Baret

Vice-Chair: Y.S.Aliabadi

TIME	SPEAKER	TITLE
9:00	A. Cordereo	Quantum Theory and the Under Determination of Theories by Experience
9:40	G. Gates	Why Many Minds Make Bad Science
10:20	T.Shomar	Bohr and his Debate with Einstein
11:00	Break
11:30	1. Z. Tsekhmistro	The Problem of Quantum Correlations "Mechamism"
12:1 0
12:50	Lunch Break
14:30	D. Albert	Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and the Goals of Natural Science
15:10	D. Van Dalen	What is Mathematics ? Intuitionistic Reflections
15.50	L. Ropolyi	Panel Discussion: Current Issues in Philosophy of Science
17:00	Break
17:30	L. Ropolyi	Panel Discussion: Current Issues in Philosophy of Science
18:30	End of Session

Transcendent Philosophy of Mulla Sadra

Monday, MAY 24, 1999

Chair: Dr. I.Dinani

Vice-Chair: A.Beheshti & J.Morris

TIME	SPEAKER	TITLE
9:00	M. M. Damad	The First Mover According to Aristotle and Mulla Sadra
9:30	Y. Michot	Love of God in the al-Mabda' wal-Ma'ad of Mulla Sadra
10:00	K. Mojtahedi	Mulla Sadra: Symbol of Cultural Unification of Iran
10:30	C. Bonmariage	The Concept of the Analogical Gradation of Being in Mulla Sadra's Philosophy
11:00	Break
11:30