Jari Kaukua
Biographic Data
| ID | 1689561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jari Kaukua |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jari |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaukua |
| SIGNATURE | KAUKUA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6437-8534 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics
This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the properties that it has by virtue of its essence (and that are thus necessary by virtue of its identity) and th…
Mind and knowledge of mind in classical Islamic philosophy
Classical Islamic philosophy has in recent years started to receive the sort of attention that this rich period and tradition in the history of philosophy deserves. The number of English translatio
Future contingency and God’s knowledge of particulars in Avicenna
Avicenna’s discussion of future contingent propositions is sometimes considered to entail metaphysical indeterminism. In this paper, I argue that his logical analysis of future contingent statements is best understood in terms of the epistemic modality of those statements, which has no consequences for modal metaphysics. This interpretation is corroborated by hitherto neglected material concerning the question of God’s knowledge of particulars. I…
Al-Rāzī By Peter Adamson
Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (d. 313/925) is commonly recognized as a rather exceptional thinker among other major figures of the formative period of Islamic philosophy. He held philosophical views that peers of highly varied persuasions unanimously condemned, and notwithstanding the veneration he enjoyed as a physician, Rāzī is frequently repudiated as one of the worst heretics the Islamic world has known, some even judging him a downright atheist. No doubt…
The Question of Providence and the Problem of Evil in Suhrawardī
Šihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī’s philosophical works seem to contain two conflicting views on providence: in the Talwīḥāt and the Mašāriʿ , he endorses the Avicennian view, only to deny providence altogether in the Ḥikmat al-išrāq . This contribution aims to explain the seeming inconsistency by investigating it in light of the underlying question of God’s knowledge of particular things. I will also argue that despite his qualms concerning providence,…
Arguments for God’s Existence in Classical Islamic Thought
nonPeerReviewed
The Flying and the Masked Man, One More Time
This is a critical comment on Adamson and Benevich (2018), published in issue 4/2 of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association . I raise two closely related objections. The first concerns the objective of the flying man: instead of the question of what the soul is, I argue that the argument is designed to answer the question of whether the soul exists independently of the body. The second objection concerns the expected result of the …
Iʿtibārī Concepts in Suhrawardī
Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī (d. 587/1191) famously criticised the central concepts of Avicennian metaphysics as merely mind-dependent (or iʿtibārī ) notions. This paper aims to show that despite his critique, Suhrawardī held that these concepts are meaningful, indeed necessary for human cognition. By the same token, it is argued that their re-emergence in Suhrawardī’s ishrāqī metaphysics is not a matter of incoherence. Although the paper’s findin…
On the Standards of Conceptual Change
It is a necessary condition for recognising change that there is a yardstick against which the change can be perceived. The same applies to changes that philosophical concepts undergo. This paper delineates standards for recognising conceptual change that meet the requirements of conscientious history of philosophy. More particularly, we want to argue for the need of what we will call non-textual standards. These are features of the world of expe…
Ayman Shihadeh, Doubts on Avicenna
nonPeerReviewed
The Triumph of Mercy
Journal Article The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mullā ṢadrāBy Mohammed Rustom. Get access The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mullā Ṣadrā By Mohammed Rustom (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press (SUNY), 2012), xii + 210 pp., bibliography, index. Price HB $80.00. EAN 978–1438443416. Jari Kaukua Jari Kaukua University of Jyväskylä Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jour…
Subjectivity as a Non-textual Standard of Interpretation in the History of Philosophical Psychology
Contemporary caution against anachronism in intellectual history, and the currently momentous theoretical emphasis on subjectivity in the philosophy of mind, are two prevailing conditions that set puzzling constraints for studies in the history of philosophical psychology. The former urges against assuming ideas, motives, and concepts that are alien to the historical intellectual setting under study, and combined with the latter suggests caution …
Subjectivity as a Non-textual Standard of Interpretation in the History of Philosophical Psychology
Contemporary caution against anachronism in intellectual history, and the currently momentous theoretical emphasis on subjectivity in the philosophy of mind, are two prevailing conditions that set puzzling constraints for studies in the history of philosophical psychology. The former urges against assuming ideas, motives, and concepts that are alien to the historical intellectual setting under study, and combined with the latter suggests caution …
Subjectivity as a Non-textual Standard of Interpretation in the History of Philosophical Psychology
Contemporary caution against anachronism in intellectual history, and the currently momentous theoretical emphasis on subjectivity in the philosophy of mind, are two prevailing conditions that set puzzling constraints for studies in the history of philosophical psychology. The former urges against assuming ideas, motives, and concepts that are alien to the historical intellectual setting under study, and combined with the latter suggests caution …
The Triumph of Mercy
Journal Article The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mullā ṢadrāBy Mohammed Rustom. Get access The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mullā Ṣadrā By Mohammed Rustom (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press (SUNY), 2012), xii + 210 pp., bibliography, index. Price HB $80.00. EAN 978–1438443416. Jari Kaukua Jari Kaukua University of Jyväskylä Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jour…
Ayman Shihadeh, Doubts on Avicenna
nonPeerReviewed
On the Standards of Conceptual Change
It is a necessary condition for recognising change that there is a yardstick against which the change can be perceived. The same applies to changes that philosophical concepts undergo. This paper delineates standards for recognising conceptual change that meet the requirements of conscientious history of philosophy. More particularly, we want to argue for the need of what we will call non-textual standards. These are features of the world of expe…
The Flying and the Masked Man, One More Time
This is a critical comment on Adamson and Benevich (2018), published in issue 4/2 of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association . I raise two closely related objections. The first concerns the objective of the flying man: instead of the question of what the soul is, I argue that the argument is designed to answer the question of whether the soul exists independently of the body. The second objection concerns the expected result of the …
Iʿtibārī Concepts in Suhrawardī
Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī (d. 587/1191) famously criticised the central concepts of Avicennian metaphysics as merely mind-dependent (or iʿtibārī ) notions. This paper aims to show that despite his critique, Suhrawardī held that these concepts are meaningful, indeed necessary for human cognition. By the same token, it is argued that their re-emergence in Suhrawardī’s ishrāqī metaphysics is not a matter of incoherence. Although the paper’s findin…
The Question of Providence and the Problem of Evil in Suhrawardī
Šihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī’s philosophical works seem to contain two conflicting views on providence: in the Talwīḥāt and the Mašāriʿ , he endorses the Avicennian view, only to deny providence altogether in the Ḥikmat al-išrāq . This contribution aims to explain the seeming inconsistency by investigating it in light of the underlying question of God’s knowledge of particular things. I will also argue that despite his qualms concerning providence,…
Arguments for God’s Existence in Classical Islamic Thought
nonPeerReviewed
Al-Rāzī By Peter Adamson
Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (d. 313/925) is commonly recognized as a rather exceptional thinker among other major figures of the formative period of Islamic philosophy. He held philosophical views that peers of highly varied persuasions unanimously condemned, and notwithstanding the veneration he enjoyed as a physician, Rāzī is frequently repudiated as one of the worst heretics the Islamic world has known, some even judging him a downright atheist. No doubt…
Mind and knowledge of mind in classical Islamic philosophy
Classical Islamic philosophy has in recent years started to receive the sort of attention that this rich period and tradition in the history of philosophy deserves. The number of English translatio
Future contingency and God’s knowledge of particulars in Avicenna
Avicenna’s discussion of future contingent propositions is sometimes considered to entail metaphysical indeterminism. In this paper, I argue that his logical analysis of future contingent statements is best understood in terms of the epistemic modality of those statements, which has no consequences for modal metaphysics. This interpretation is corroborated by hitherto neglected material concerning the question of God’s knowledge of particulars. I…
Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics
This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the properties that it has by virtue of its essence (and that are thus necessary by virtue of its identity) and th…
Medieval and Classical Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Islamic Thought and Society Studies (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Theology (5 works) · Families in Therapy and Culture (4 works) · Metaphysics (4 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (3 works) · Islam (3 works)