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In this talk, I will discuss two ways in which one might treat counterevidence conservatively, namely, by what Gilbert Harman has called accepting something as full-belief, and by exhibiting what is known as biased assimilation in the social psychology literature. I first discuss the normative natures of these practices and will argue that, despite their opposing natures, when rational, they can both be reduced to the same general principle of practical rationality together with other auxiliary facts about epistemic rationality. I then consider the important worry that these practices might introduce an undue level of path-dependency to our epistemic conditions. I will argue that, initial appearances to the contrary, such path-dependency will be mitigated by considerations of simplicity and precision in the long run.

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✅ Lecture Title: Fundamentals of Mulla Sadra’s Political Philosophy
👤 Lecturer: Seyed Salman Safavi(London Academy of Iranian Studies, UK)

🖋 Abstract: In this Lecture, the Fundamentals of Mulla Sadra's political philosophy are explained based on his book titled “al-Shawahid al-Rububiyyah fil Manahij al-Sulukiyyah”. This book is one of the last works of Mulla Sadra written after al-Asfar al-arba'ah.

According to Mulla Sadra, there is a mutually inclusive relationship between wisdom, Shari'a and politics. Politics is generally divided into two categories independent of Shari'a and in interaction with Shari'a.

The decrees of the real Shari'a are based on rational wisdom that considers real benefits and harms. "Sublime politics" is politics that results in the development and excellence of the material and spiritual life of society. Justice is the foundation of social relations and politics. If politics does not lead to progress and justice in society, that politics is not in accordance with Sharia, even if it rules under the banner of religion.

Politics that does not follow the values of “Perennial Philosophy” which has been sent by the Absolute Wise (God) through the prophets cannot build a balanced society that provides for the needs and requirements of life in this world and also the next.

Establishing justice, preventing war, and providing conditions for spiritual progress are amongst the goals and objectives of government in Mulla Sadra's political philosophy. He is of the opinion that building a spiritual society is not possible without establishing social justice and social security. He considers politics minus the presence of the values of the Supreme Wise (the law of truth) as a soulless corpse.

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🔸 This lecture will be presented in the 1st Annual Sharif-St Petersburg Joint Seminar on Iranian Culture & Philosophical Traditions:
🔰 Iranian Art, Philosophy and History of Science During the Safavid Dynasty 1501-1736


📅 26-27 November 2020
🌐 This Seminar will be held on Sharif Vclass Platform.

❗️ In order to register and to get more information, click on this link:
📎 ia.sharif.ir/sut-spbu-seminar

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✅ Lecture Title: Two approaches for Mulla Sadra’s Transcendental Philosophy: S.H. Nasr vs S. Safavi
👤 Lecturer: Ruzana Pskhu(Russian Peoples’ Friendship University )

🖋 Abstract: In my paper I will considerate two investigations on Mulla Sadra’s Transcendental Philosophy. Both of them I have translated into the Russian language and they are already published in Russia. My interest is focused on two points. The first one is to look how the worldview of a scholar can be mirrored in his representation of Mulla Sadra’s philosophy. And the second one is to compare the methodological approaches of investigation of Mulla Sadra’s doctrine in S.H. Nasr’s “Sadr al-Din Shirazi and His Transcendent Theosophy: Background, Life and Works” (1977) and S. Safavi’s “The Philosophy and Life of Mulla Sadra” (2013).

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🔸 This lecture will be presented in the 1st Annual Sharif-St Petersburg Joint Seminar on Iranian Culture & Philosophical Traditions:
🔰 Iranian Art, Philosophy and History of Science During the Safavid Dynasty 1501-1736


📅 26-27 November 2020
🌐 This Seminar will be held on Sharif Vclass Platform.

❗️ In order to register and to get more information, click on this link:
📎 ia.sharif.ir/sut-spbu-seminar

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✅ Lecture Title: From the therapeutic Safavid architecture color system to the development of today's Iranian color palettes.
👤 Lecturer: Maryam Mohammadgholipour (Department of Architecture and Environment Design, International Islamic University Malaysia)

🖋 Abstract: This topic was based on the observation that contemporary Iranian architecture is colorless while Iranian traditional architecture is colorful. The industrial revolution, the growth of the population, phenomena of urbanism, and interaction with the West brought the new concept of color construction and new material to contemporary Iranian architecture. while there was a "color pattern" in Iranian architecture around 400 years ago in the "Safavid era" that not just had a system but also it was therapeutic. This system has NATURAL and DUAL characteristics and CONTEXTUAL meaning which will be produced in a form of the palette to be used in contemporary architecture and industries.

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🔸 This lecture will be presented in the 1st Annual Sharif-St Petersburg Joint Seminar on Iranian Culture & Philosophical Traditions:
🔰 Iranian Art, Philosophy and History of Science During the Safavid Dynasty 1501-1736


📅 26-27 November 2020
🌐 This Seminar will be held on Sharif Vclass Platform.

❗️ In order to register and to get more information, click on this link:
📎 ia.sharif.ir/sut-spbu-seminar

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✅ Lecture Title: Siyahmashq: Its Origins and Development through the Ages
👤 Lecturer: Dr. Sofia Useinova(Senior lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Culture of the East, Institute of Philosophy, St.-Petersburg State University)

🖋 Abstract: Siyahmashq, literally meaning "black practice", has left its original narrow context of practice sheet to become one of the most important genres of calligraphic writing in Iran. This seminal transformation had occurred in the reign of the Safavid dynasty, thus marking one of its many artistic achievements; since then its seemingly endless possibilities had been vastly developed in the Qajar epoch, and principles of mashq compositions lie at the base of much of modern-day creative calligraphy. The phenomenon is certainly not unknown in the West, having been mentioned in numerous works dealing with islamic calligraphy, but its aesthetic, religious and philosophical underpinnings are rarely discussed at length (if at all). This presentation will then present a humble attempt at putting together an overview of this exceedingly impressive calligraphic genre.

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🔸 This lecture will be presented in the 1st Annual Sharif-St Petersburg Joint Seminar on Iranian Culture & Philosophical Traditions:
🔰 Iranian Art, Philosophy and History of Science During the Safavid Dynasty 1501-1736


📅 26-27 November 2020
🌐 This Seminar will be held on Sharif Vclass Platform.

❗️ In order to register and to get more information, click on this link:
📎 ia.sharif.ir/sut-spbu-seminar

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#چکیده #Abstract

Knowledge Culture as inclusive and participatory commemorative culture: Islamic Knowledges in public and museum spaces

The Hafiz-Goethe monument in Weimar commemorates the Persian poet Hafiz (CA. 1315-1390), who inspired the poetry of Johann-Wolfgang Goethe and Friedrich Rückert. Goethe's book of poems, the Western-Eastern Divan (1819) exemplifies this. Monuments, historical editions of the Divan and manuscripts – including those written by Goethe in Arabic – are evidence of material and manuscript cultures being part of UNESCO World Documents Heritage. They are among the most well-known and only recently installed material memorials in the German-speaking public spaces, refering to Persian and Arabic inspirations and adaptions in poetry. When it comes to commemorative material and immaterial cultures of knowledge and sciences in Islam further research is needed.
In addition to monuments, objects and manuscripts in museums and archives, there are numerous memorials, artifacts and objects of Eastern-Western knowledge travel- ing, its adaptations and representations in material cultures in the public area, which have hitherto, and if at all, then only been dealt selectively in the historically oriented cultural sciences and history of sciences. This holds true for Arabic embroidered Bishop's robes dating back to the 13th century or friezes, e.g., representing ar-Rāzī on the wall of pharmacies at the beginning of the 17th century.
The presentation will map some material and immaterial cultures of remembrance, before question them with regard to their musealizability, discussing them in the context of critical cultural and knowledge heritage debates. Against the background of the discussion about multi-perspective, multi-directional and polylogical commem- orative cultures, recent approaches of an inclusive and decolonial culture of memory, which take Persian and Arabic contributions to the universal culture of knowledge into the research focus, are introduced.
Giving some examples from German speaking lands and Turkey (Ibn Sīnā Garden in Istanbul), the presentation will also introduce new paths of experimental history of sciences, e.g., in the fields chemistry, pharmacy (distillation) and medicinal botanic.
Detlev Quintern,
Istanbul, the 24th of January 2021

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