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Aladdin Yaqub

Aladdin Yaqub

Professor

William Wilson Selfridge Professor of Philosophy

610.758.3777
amy206@lehigh.edu
15 - Philosophy Bldg
Education:

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1991

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Research Statement

My areas of research are logic, truth theory, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, and Islamic philosophy and theology. Furthermore, for the past several years I have been developing wide expertise in the histories and philosophical theologies of the world’s monotheistic traditions. To date, I have published four books on truth theory (Oxford University Press), Islamic philosophical theology (University of Chicago Press), logical theory (Broadview Press), and metalogic (Broadview Press). I am currently working on a new book project about the Qur'anic exegeses of six early Mu'tazilite masters (under contract with Brill). 

For more information and free downloads, see my webpage: https://aladdinmyaqub.academia.edu/

Biography

I came to philosophy from a background in mathematics. I am originally from Baghdad, Iraq, having earned a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Baghdad in 1979. I did my graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, earning two M.A. degrees in mathematics and philosophy and a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1991. Before coming to Lehigh University in 2006, I taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Florida State University, Luther College, and the University of New Mexico.

Books

  • An Introduction to Metalogic, Broadview Press, 2015
  • Al-Ghazālī’s Moderation in Belief (Al-Iqtiṣād fī al-Iʿtiqād), Translation with an Interpretive Essay and Notes, The University of Chicago Press, 2013
  • An Introduction to Logical Theory, Broadview Press, 2013
  • The Liar Speaks the Truth: A Defense of the Revision Theory of Truth, Oxford University Press, 1993

Book in Progress

Qurʾanic Exegeses of Six Early Muʿtazilite Masters (8th/9th and 10th Centuries CE); an annotated translation; under contract with Brill

Articles, Book Chapters, and Reviews

– “Al-Ghazālī’s View on Causality,” in Occasionalism Revisited: New Essays from the Islamic
and Western Philosophical Traditions, edited by Nazif Muhtaroglu, Kalam Research and
Media, Abu Dhabi, 2017, pp. 22–40
– “Mental Types: The Basic Arguments,” Review of Contemporary Philosophy 12 (2013): 11–29
– “On the Problem of the Intellective Soul in Aristotle,” Analysis and Metaphysics 11 (2012):
14–29
– “Al-Ghazālī’s Ethical Egoism and Divine Will,” in Monotheism and Ethics: Historical and
Contemporary Intersections among Judaism, Christianity and Islam, edited by Y. Tzvi
Langermann, Brill, Leiden, 2012, pp. 163–196
– “The Virtue of Open-Mindedness,” Philosophy Study 2 (2012): 35–42
– “Al-Ghazālī’s Philosophers on the Divine Unity,” Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 20 (2010):
281–306
– “Two Types of Deflationism,” Synthese 165 (2008): 77–106
– “Naqd al-Nisbiyyah fī al-Akhlāq” (in Arabic; translation: “A Critique of Ethical Relativism”),
Arab Journal for the Humanities 24 (2006): 155–168
– Review of An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic: From If to Is, Graham Priest, Teaching
Philosophy 33 (2010): 432–436
– Critical Study of Correspondence and Disquotation: An Essay on the Nature of Truth, Marian
David, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 39 (1998): 279–85
– Review of The Incomplete Universe: Totality, Knowledge, and Truth, Patrick Grim, The
Philosophical Review 104 (1995): 339–341
– Review of Aristotelian Logic and the Arabic Language in Alfārābī, Shukri B. Abed, ISIS 83
(1992): 480–481