Akeel Bilgrami
Biographic Data
| ID | 308374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Akeel Bilgrami |
| GIVEN NAMES | Akeel |
| FAMILY NAME | Bilgrami |
| SIGNATURE | BILGRAMI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7739-1036 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Who cares when governments spend more? Regional aged care funding and informal care provision
While most research on long-term care focuses on older adults' demand for formal and informal services, less attention has been paid to how government spending on aged care is related to the provision and organisation of informal care. This gap is important for ageing high-income countries concerned about the future availability of unpaid care. We link nationally representative Australian longitudinal survey data (212,223 observations from 24,151…
Higher penalties, broader definitions, and national standards: Did harmonized Australian workplace health and safety laws reduce workers' compensation receipt
A quasi‐experiment was created in Australian policy between 2012 and 2013 when workplace health and safety laws were harmonized in all but two jurisdictions. This reform expanded definitions for duty of care, introduced criminal enforcement, and increased penalties. Using stacked difference‐in‐difference estimation, we fail to find overall reduced workers' compensation probability over the post‐reform period. However, we find significantly reduce…
Patterns in health care use and intensity for diagnosed and undiagnosed cognitive impairment in the older australian community: Implications for primary care management
Diagnosis and symptom management in primary care may enable individuals with MCI to improve their quality of life and prevent more costly future health care use. However, our study found potential gaps in medical service use for people with undiagnosed MCI in the community, especially when they had less support or did not have memory symptoms. Primary care services may need to better diagnose and target these individuals
How Secular Is Art?: On the Politics of Art, History and Religion in South Asia
As an invitation to interrogate the secular modality of art, the book unsettles both the categories of 'art' and 'secular' in their theoretical and historical implications. It questions the temporal, spatial and cultural binaries between the 'sacred' and the 'secular' that have shaped art historical scholarship as well as artistic practice. All the essays here are anchored in a conception of a region, whether we call it South Asia or the Indian s…
The 2021 proposal to increase market forces in the Australian residential aged-care sector
Barriers and facilitators to implementing priority setting and resource allocation tools in hospital decisions: A systematic review
The Political Possibilities of Moral Realism: The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans, Margaret C. Jacob; Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Litera…
This essay explores a common theme in Margaret Jacob's The Radical Enlightenment and M. H. Abrams's Natural Supernaturalism, arguing they traverse the trajectory of a doctrine that may be called "realism about values" from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century and the political possibilities it offers for a form of radicalism that stands apart from the political commitments of the orthodox Enlightenment. Such radicalism stresses the i…
Guest Editor's Introduction
The Philosophical Significance of the Commons
Human Dispositions and Social Institutions
Human Dispositions and Social Institutions Akeel Bilgrami (bio) human beings have two remarkable traits, the second of which we had little reason to suspect that we possessed until the rise of new technologies such as the internet. The first is the capacity to anticipate events and tendencies, map their future in the short-, mid-, and long terms, and act accordingly. We can, of course, go wrong, and so there is always an element of risk in making…
Nature and Value
This book brings together essays that individually and as a whole present a detailed and rigorous multidisciplinary exploration of the concept of nature and its wider ethical and political implications. The essays together present a revaluation of the natural world with a view to addressing some of the fundamental concerns of our time.
Value and Alienation: A Revisionist Essay on Our Political Ideals
Missing keywords and the political unconscious
Contemporary Populisms
The rise of right-wing populism in recent years can be interpreted as a direct consequence of the crisis in the relationship between traditional parties and the civilian population. A careful reflection on this phenomenon, though, requires a more extensive and ramified explanation of its material and ideological causes. A significant role has also been played by the inability of the media and institutions to understand the needs of less well-to-d…
Reflections on three populisms
Akeel Bilgrami’s paper considers the populist surges of our times in three countries: Trump’s America, Brexit Britain, and Modi’s India, distinguishing the special features of each, and philosophically and politically analyzing the relations that populism bears to both liberalism and the capitalist political economies of liberal-democratic societies
What Is This ‘Populism’?
Freedom versus Accountability in the Academy
Freedom versus Accountability in the Academy Akeel Bilgrami (bio) the question of freedom of inquiry has been in the air, no doubt, ever since human inquiry began in any systematic way. But institutions of learning face the question in a rather more specific form since, on the one hand, they may claim to be uniquely privileged in possessing such freedom because inquiry itself is their most central function, yet on the other hand, they may be host…
Beyond the Secular West
What is the character of secularism in countries that were not pervaded by Christianity, such as China, India, and the nations of the Middle East? To what extent is the secular an imposition of colonial rule? How does secularism comport with local religious cultures in Africa, and how does it work with local forms of power and governance in Latin America? Has modern secularism evolved organically, or is it even necessary, and has it always meant …
Jawaharlal Nehru, Mohandas Gandhi, and the Contexts of Indian Secularism
Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohandas Gandhi shared the view that India’s nationalism made secularism unnecessary, for secularism is a notion whose conceptual genealogy is in a specific historical context, an idea designed to repair the damaging effects of European nation-state formation. An alternative Indian nationalism was to consist in a reconstruction of what they took to be India’s unselfconsciously pluralist traditions; the genuine and lived plura…
Beyond the Secular West
Nine major scholars of philosophy, religion, law, ethics, history, anthropology, and politics consider the fate of Western secularism in modern global societies. Extending Charles Taylor's A Secular Age , this anthology explores the transformation of Western secularism beyond Europe, and the collection closes with Taylor's response to each essay
The Visibility of Value
This paper gives an extended argument for the conclusion that values are visible properties in the world we inhabit (including nature) and are not entirely derivable from states of mind such as our desires and "moral sentiments." The argument thus repudiates as a superstition of modernity the widespread assumption that the concept of "nature" is to be equated without remainder with "what the natural sciences study." The paper also gives a brief c…
Failures of Mind and Meaning
The essay, by a philosophical scrutiny of certain failures of mind and language, explores the sense in which human intentionality is fundamentally normative and why the very sense in which that is so does not hold of linguistic meaning, which is not susceptible to such failures, despite its close links to human intentions
Identity and Identification
Arthur Danto Has Just Died
Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment
In a rigorous exploration of how secularism and identity emerged as conflicting concepts in the modern world, Akeel Bilgrami elaborates a notion of secular enchantment with a view to finding in secular modernity a locus of meaning and value, while addressing squarely the anxiety that all such notions are exercises in nostalgia.
What Is a Muslim? Fundamental Commitment and Cultural Identity
Occidentalism, the Very Idea: An Essay on Enlightenment and Enchantment
Notes toward the definition of ‘identity’
Secularism and Relativism
Research Article| May 01 2004 Secularism and Relativism Akeel Bilgrami Akeel Bilgrami Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2004) 31 (2): 173–196. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-31-2-173 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Akeel Bilgrami; Secularism and Relativism. boundary 2 1 May 2004; 31 (2): 173–196. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-31-2-173 …
Gandhi's integrity: The philosophy behind the politics
(2002). Gandhi's integrity: The philosophy behind the politics. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 79-93
Contemporary Populisms
The rise of right-wing populism in recent years can be interpreted as a direct consequence of the crisis in the relationship between traditional parties and the civilian population. A careful reflection on this phenomenon, though, requires a more extensive and ramified explanation of its material and ideological causes. A significant role has also been played by the inability of the media and institutions to understand the needs of less well-to-d…
Reflections on three populisms
Akeel Bilgrami’s paper considers the populist surges of our times in three countries: Trump’s America, Brexit Britain, and Modi’s India, distinguishing the special features of each, and philosophically and politically analyzing the relations that populism bears to both liberalism and the capitalist political economies of liberal-democratic societies
The Visibility of Value
This paper gives an extended argument for the conclusion that values are visible properties in the world we inhabit (including nature) and are not entirely derivable from states of mind such as our desires and "moral sentiments." The argument thus repudiates as a superstition of modernity the widespread assumption that the concept of "nature" is to be equated without remainder with "what the natural sciences study." The paper also gives a brief c…
Replies to Tom Baldwin and Calvin Normore
Critical Response II Reply to Bruce Robbins’s “Not without Reason
What Is a Muslim? Fundamental Commitment and Cultural Identity
Belief and Meaning: The Unity and Locality of Mental Content
Part 1 Belief, meaning, and the external world: what is meant by the of content? externalism what is meant by the of content?. Part 2 The unity of interntional content: the threat to the unity of content the orthodox externalisms why the orthodox externalisms threaten unity and mine doesn't some objections to the charge of disunity self-knowledge more objections to the charge of disunity. Part 3 Society and norm: the relevance of norms and rules …
Belief and Meaning: The Unity and Locality of Mental Content
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Belief and Meaning: the Unity and Locality of Mental Content. By Akeel Bilgrami. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1992. Pp. x + 301. Price £40.00.) Robert Kirk Robert Kirk University of Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 44, Issue 174, January 1994, Pages 115–117, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220154 Published: 01 January 1994
On McDowell on the Content of Perceptual Experience
Journal Article On McDowell on the Content of Perceptual Experience Get access Akeel Bilgrami Akeel Bilgrami Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 44, Issue 175, April 1994, Pages 206–213, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219741 Published: 01 April 1994
Bilgrami on Belief and Meaning: Is Fregean Externalism Possible
On Bilgrami's Belief and Meaning
Like all topics that generate a fruitful philosophical debate, the issue of psychological content is very complex, while at the same time featuring reasonably clear desiderata for a successful theory. Akeel Bilgrami's book is a splendid response to the challenge that this issue provides, containing an especially lucid analysis of the requirements of a successful theory, a deep understanding of the crucial examples, and a creative development of a…
Unity, Locality and Agency: Bilgrami on Belief and Meaning
Bilgrami's Theory of Belief and Meaning
Replies
Gandhi's integrity: The philosophy behind the politics
(2002). Gandhi's integrity: The philosophy behind the politics. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 79-93
Secularism and Relativism
Research Article| May 01 2004 Secularism and Relativism Akeel Bilgrami Akeel Bilgrami Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2004) 31 (2): 173–196. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-31-2-173 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Akeel Bilgrami; Secularism and Relativism. boundary 2 1 May 2004; 31 (2): 173–196. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-31-2-173 …
Interpreting a Distinction
Notes toward the definition of ‘identity’
Occidentalism, the Very Idea: An Essay on Enlightenment and Enchantment
Critical Response II Reply to Bruce Robbins’s “Not without Reason
Naturalism in Question
Truth, Balance, and Freedom
Akeel Bilgrami Truth, Balance, and Freedom THOUGH THERE IS MUCH RADICAL— AND OFTEN UNPLEASANT— disagreem ent on the fundamental questions around academic free dom, these disagreements tend to be between people who seldom find themselves speaking to each other on an occasion such as this or even, in general, speaking to the same audience. On this subject, as in so much else in the political arena these days, one finds oneself speak ing only to t…
Replies to Tom Baldwin and Calvin Normore
Précis of Self‐Knowledge and Resentment 1
Islam and the West: Conflict, democracy, identity
This short essay analyzes the deception and self-deception in talk of ‘the clash of civilizations’ and proceeds to diagnose what is wrong in the standard understanding of Islam in the Western media today by looking to the abiding history of colonial relations with Islam down to this day and also looking to the relation between ideals of democracy and the formation of religious identities. The essay closes with some remarks about the nature of ide…
Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment
In a rigorous exploration of how secularism and identity emerged as conflicting concepts in the modern world, Akeel Bilgrami elaborates a notion of secular enchantment with a view to finding in secular modernity a locus of meaning and value, while addressing squarely the anxiety that all such notions are exercises in nostalgia.
Identity and Identification
Arthur Danto Has Just Died
Beyond the Secular West
What is the character of secularism in countries that were not pervaded by Christianity, such as China, India, and the nations of the Middle East? To what extent is the secular an imposition of colonial rule? How does secularism comport with local religious cultures in Africa, and how does it work with local forms of power and governance in Latin America? Has modern secularism evolved organically, or is it even necessary, and has it always meant …
Jawaharlal Nehru, Mohandas Gandhi, and the Contexts of Indian Secularism
Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohandas Gandhi shared the view that India’s nationalism made secularism unnecessary, for secularism is a notion whose conceptual genealogy is in a specific historical context, an idea designed to repair the damaging effects of European nation-state formation. An alternative Indian nationalism was to consist in a reconstruction of what they took to be India’s unselfconsciously pluralist traditions; the genuine and lived plura…
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