Research

This page will be regularly updated with publications, presentations, and volumes produced by the project leaders and affiliates.

Presentations

Billy Dunaway and Jon McGinnis, God, Language, and Skepticism: The Alston-Wolterstorff Debate through the Eyes of Medieval Islam.

• February 2019 APA Central Division Meeting, Denver, CO. Symposium for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy.

Billy Dunaway, Testimony and Interpretation.

• January 2020, Saint Louis University.

Jon McGinnis, Keep It Simple: Plantinga and al-Ghazālī on Divine Simplicity.

• February 2020 APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Rosabel Ansari, Tashkik and Sophistry in Farabi's Philosophy of Language.

• February 2020 APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Billy Dunaway, Necessary Existent Theology.

• July 2020, UMSL works-in-progress group.

Hashem Movarid, The Muʿtazila’s Arguments Against Divine Command Theory.

• October 2020, USML works-in-progress group.

Billy Dunaway, The Epistemology of Theological Predication.

• October 2020, The Christian West And Islamic East Lecture Series 2020-21.

Papers

Billy Dunaway and Jon McGinnis, Knowledge and Theological Predication: Lessons from the Medieval Islamic Tradition. Draft here.

Rosabel Ansari, Billy Dunaway, and Jon McGinnis, Necessary Existent Theology. Draft here.

Matthew Benton and Billy Dunaway, Testimony and Interpretation. Draft here.

Billy Dunaway, The Epistemology of Divine Predicates. Draft available soon.

Jon McGinnis, Keep It Simple: Plantinga and al-Ghazālī on Divine Simplicity. Draft here.

Rosabel Ansari and Jon McGinnis, translations of selections from Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, Sharḥ al-Ishārāt wa-l-tanbīhāt and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, Sharḥ al-Ishārāt wa-l-tanbīhāt.

Volumes and
Journal Issues

Special Issue of Res Philosophica on Islamic philosophy and contemporary philosophy of religion.

Background image: a Latin translation of Averroes's Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics. Brasenose College Library Registrum A GOV 3 A1/1.