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.

Scholars and thinkers

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.