Research library

The Research Library is a working catalogue of scholars, texts, papers, articles, lectures, and resources relevant to Hikmah Islam, organised by field, subject, method, and rational entailment.

• Name / Work:
• Type: Academic / Book / Paper / Article / Lecture / Website / Dataset
• Field:
• Subject:
• Related entailments:
• Use for WikiHikmah:
• Status: To read / Read / Important / Cited / Questionable
• Notes:

Philosophy

Metaphysics

Persistence, time, and identity

Four-dimensionalism / perdurantism

Sider, Theodore. “Four Dimensionalism.” The Philosophical Review 106 (1997): 197–231.

• Perdurantism; B-theory of time; Eternalism; Ontological parsimony; Ontological priority

• Sider argues for four-dimensionalism using considerations from vagueness and mereological composition.

• Useful for developing the argument that objects persist through temporal parts rather than being wholly present at each moment. Relevant to the Hikmah account of time, temporal extension, identity, and the ontology of the block universe.

History

Ancient Philosophy

Platonism and Neoplatonism

Lloyd P. Gerson

Gerson, Lloyd P. From Plato to Platonism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013.

Gerson, Lloyd P. Aristotle and Other Platonists. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.

Gerson, Lloyd P. Platonism and Naturalism: The Possibility of Philosophy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020.

Gerson, Lloyd P. Plato's Moral Realism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

• Type: Academic / Books / Secondary scholarship

• Field: Ancient philosophy; Platonism; metaphysics; ethics; philosophy of religion; history of philosophy

• Subject: Plato; Aristotle; Plotinus; Platonism; anti-naturalism; the Good; intelligible reality; metaphysical realism; moral realism

• Related entailments: Consciousness; Sovereignty of Intellect; Ontological priority; Noocracy; Self-Cultivation; Wilayah

• Use for WikiHikmah: Gerson is useful for treating Platonism not merely as the historical philosophy of Plato, but as a continuous metaphysical tradition concerned with intelligible reality, the Good, intellect, being, order, and normativity. His work is especially relevant where Hikmah Islam draws on the Platonic and Neoplatonic inheritance behind Islamic philosophy, illuminationism, metaphysical hierarchy, noetic governance, and the claim that ethics must be grounded in metaphysics rather than preference, convention, or naturalistic reduction.

• Status: Important / To read / Cited

• Notes: Especially useful for defending the continuity between Plato, Aristotle, and later Platonism; for resisting overly modern oppositions between Platonism and Aristotelianism; and for framing the Good as a metaphysical first principle rather than a merely moral ideal.

Scholars and thinkers

Ancient philosophy, Platonism, and metaphysics

Lloyd P. Gerson

Canadian philosopher and scholar of ancient Greek philosophy, especially Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Platonism, metaphysics, and moral realism. Relevant to Hikmah Islam as a major contemporary interpreter of Platonism as a living metaphysical tradition centred on intelligible reality, the Good, intellect, and the critique of naturalism.

Philosophy of mind, psychiatry, and consciousness

Iain McGilchrist

British psychiatrist and philosopher. Relevant to philosophy of mind, psychiatry, neuroscience, attention, consciousness, hemispheric cognition, imagination, and critiques of reductive rationality.