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Professor 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.

Books

• Analytic Philosophy and Philosophical Analysis: Problems, Prospects, and Applications, (2 Vols.), Tehran: Tarh-e Nou Publications, 2013 (forthcoming).

• Comparative Philosophy: An Anthology, edited by, Ali Paya, ICAS Press, 2013 (forthcoming).

• “How indigenous are ‘indigenous sciences’? The Case of ‘Islamic Sciences’”, in Asia, Europe, and the Emergence of Modern Science: Knowledge Crossing Boundaries, edited by Aron Bala, 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, Edited by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Gulf University for Science & Technology Publications, 2011.

• Review of Islam, Modernity, and the Human Sciences, By Ali Zaidi (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011), Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies Volume 23, Issue 3, September 2012, pp. 403-406.

• “The notion of 'Fotowwat' (altruistic magnanimity) in the Persian Athletic Sports”, in Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn, Roland Marti (Eds.) Jouer selon les règles du jeu - Playing by the Rules of the Game - Spielen nach den Spielregeln, Reihe: Transcultural Anglophone Studies 2008.

• “In Defence of Universal Moral Principles and Values”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Muslim World in Transition, Leeds: Leeds Metropolitan University Press, 2007, pp. 473-493.

• Iraq, Democracy, and the Future of Muslim World, edited by Ali Paya & John Esposito, London & New York: Routledge, 2011.

• “Futures Studies in Iran: Learning through Trial and Error” (With H. Shoraka), Futures, Volume 42, Issue 5, June 2010, Pages 484-495.

• “A philosophical assessment of the implications of the issue of human dignity for medical researches”, Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, 2008; 1:5

• Tryst with Democracy,” Seminar (Special Issue on: Experiments with Democracy), edited by: Peter deSousa, No. 576, August 2007.

• “Habermas and Iranian Intellectuals,” (with Mohammad Ghaneirad), Iranian Studies, Vol. 40, No. 3, 2007.

• “Islamic Civil Society” in The Islamic Philosophy Yearbook “Ishraq” edited by Janis Eshots, published by the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2011, No.2.