Exploring the Harmony of Measurement and Belief
Can science and faith work together? Can we reconcile experiment and observation with Divine wisdom? Connecting what is…
Philosophy
28 articles
The Veil of Ignorance
In a March 11, 2021, interview with Philosophy Magazine, Karl Lauterbach, now Germany’s health minister, concluded, “Corona policy…
Divergent Views, Same Purpose
Philosophy is described as the rational, abstract, and methodical consideration of reality as a whole or of fundamental…
Meyerovitch: A Lover of God
The author of Towards the Heart of Islam: A Woman’s Approach and Prayer in Islam, Prof. Eva de…
Faith, Wisdom, and Power
Question: What roles do faith, wisdom, and power play in the survival of a society? Faith, especially in…
Istanbul: Conversations on Life, Knowledge, and Belief
November 4-10, 2013 / Istanbul, Turkey The Fountain organized a three-day conference in Istanbul featuring scholars and academics…
Being the White Crow
Abandoned. Pushed away. Cornered. All alone. Betrayed. Away from home… these are very familiar human feelings, things we’ve…
The Philosophy of Science
Science deals with descriptions of phenomena;, it does not deal with the explanation of matters beyond. Explanation is…
Ibn Bajja and A Duel with Duality
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya al Saigh or Ibn Bajja (Avempace) is a well-known twelfth century Spanish philosopher.1…
YNU: Your Nature University
Today, many grade-school children do not know that milk comes from cows and eggs come from chickens. They…
Kant on Causality: A Critical Approach
Immanuel Kant shaped modern philosophy enormously and determined its way towards today. There are two main strands in…
Categorical Confusions Regarding Omnipotence of God
Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the three main monotheistic religions, describe God as an omnipotent, all-powerful agent. In other…
The Islamic Conceptualization of the Sciences
We believe it is not emphasized today as much as it should be that traditional conceptualizations of sciences,…
The Disconnection between Philosophy and Qur’anic Wisdom
Abstract, rational inquiry does not permit a combination between philosophy and religious wisdom1 and rules that such is…
Rethinking Islamic Philosophy and Theology
There are not many scholars interested in Islamic philosophy and theology in the West. Despite this fact, there…