Ali Paya

Professor Ali Paya is a contemporary Iranian philosopher and scholar. He has studied at Sharif University of Technology (Electronics), University of Tehran (Philosophy), University of London (Philosophy of Science) and has obtained his PhD from the University College London. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the National Research Institute for Science Policy (NRISP) in Iran and Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster in the UK.

Professor Paya has published many books as well as scholarly papers in national and international academic journals and anthologies in both Persian and English. Some of his papers are translated into Arabic and German.

His most recent and forthcoming books and papers include: Analytic Philosophy and Philosophical Analysis: Problems, Prospects and Applications (2012) (In two volumes. The first volume of this book was the winner of the title of best philosophical book of the year 2005 in Iran); Habermas and Iranian Intellectuals, (with M. Ghaneirad, 2012), Socio-Ethical Consequences of Convergent Technologies (with R. Kalantarinezhad, 2011); Iraq, Democracy, and the Future of Muslim World (with John Esposito, Routledge, 2011); Technology, Culture and Ethics (2009); “How indigenous are ‘indigenous sciences’? The Case of ‘Islamic Sciences’”, in Asia, Europe, and the Emergence of Modern Science: Knowledge Crossing Boundaries (Palgrave, 2012); “The Misguided Conception of Objectivity in Humanities and Social Sciences”, in The Crisis of the Human Sciences False Objectivity and the Decline of Creativity (2011); and “Futures Studies in Iran: Learning through Trial and Error” (With H. Shoraka, 2010).

See also

• Intellectual movements in Iran
• Hamid Reza Namazi

Sources

• Ali Paya at the University of Westminster