Saja Parvizian
Biographic Data
| ID | 5995516 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saja Parvizian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saja |
| FAMILY NAME | Parvizian |
| SIGNATURE | PARVIZIAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Independent Scholar, Myrtle Beach, United States |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3301-0574 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Al-Ghazālī, nativism, and divine interventionism
Al-Ghazālī’s engagement with scepticism in the Deliverance from Error has received much attention in recent literature, often in the context of comparing him with Descartes. However, there is one curious text that has gone largely unnoticed by commentators. In his account of how he overcame scepticism vis-à-vis a divine light cast unto his heart, al-Ghazālī makes a cryptic claim that suggests that primary truths are inherent to the mind, and that…
Descartes’ God is a deceiver, and that’s OK
Leibniz on Intellectual Pleasure, Perception of Perfection, and Power
Leibniz is unclear about the nature of pleasure. In some texts, he describes pleasure as a perception of perfection, while in other texts he describes pleasure as being caused by a perception of perfection. In this article, I disambiguate two senses of “perception of perfection”, which clarifies Leibniz's considered position. I argue that pleasure is a perception of an increase in a substance ' s power which is caused by a substance's knowledge o…
Averroes’ Takfir of al-Ghazalı
Al-Ghazālı̄ famously claims in the Incoherence of the Philosophers that al-Fārābī and Avicenna are unbelievers because they hold philosophical positions that conflict with Islam. What is less well-known, however, is that Averroës claims in the Decisive Treatise that al-Fārābī and Avicenna are not unbelievers; rather, al-Ghazālı̄ is the true unbeliever for writing the Incoherence of the Philosophers. In this paper, my aim is to present a sustained…
Scientia, diachronic certainty, and virtue
Leibniz on Intellectual Pleasure, Perception of Perfection, and Power
Leibniz is unclear about the nature of pleasure. In some texts, he describes pleasure as a perception of perfection, while in other texts he describes pleasure as being caused by a perception of perfection. In this article, I disambiguate two senses of “perception of perfection”, which clarifies Leibniz's considered position. I argue that pleasure is a perception of an increase in a substance ' s power which is caused by a substance's knowledge o…
Averroes’ Takfir of al-Ghazalı
Al-Ghazālı̄ famously claims in the Incoherence of the Philosophers that al-Fārābī and Avicenna are unbelievers because they hold philosophical positions that conflict with Islam. What is less well-known, however, is that Averroës claims in the Decisive Treatise that al-Fārābī and Avicenna are not unbelievers; rather, al-Ghazālı̄ is the true unbeliever for writing the Incoherence of the Philosophers. In this paper, my aim is to present a sustained…
Scientia, diachronic certainty, and virtue
Al-Ghazālī, nativism, and divine interventionism
Al-Ghazālī’s engagement with scepticism in the Deliverance from Error has received much attention in recent literature, often in the context of comparing him with Descartes. However, there is one curious text that has gone largely unnoticed by commentators. In his account of how he overcame scepticism vis-à-vis a divine light cast unto his heart, al-Ghazālī makes a cryptic claim that suggests that primary truths are inherent to the mind, and that…
Descartes’ God is a deceiver, and that’s OK
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Islamic Thought and Society Studies (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (2 works) · Metaphysics (2 works) · Philosophy of language (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)