Samir Abuzaid |
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An independent philosophy
researcher (see curriculum Vita), started to
learn philosophy by myself on 1989, my self-philosophical project
dates back to 1995 where I have written my first overall view about
nature, philosophical method, language, and the tri-relation between
science, philosophy and religion. later on I decided to educate my
self to cope with latest knowledge of philosophy of science,
in general, and philosophy of physics, in particular. This has
revealed itself in a series of research work, some of it has been
published, other are not published yet (see research). At the end
such studies
has been crystallized in my major book 'Science and conditions of
renaissance', a monograph that deals with the relation between
societies which strive toward modernity, such as contemporary Arabic
societies, and our contemporary understanding of 'Science' as an
essential human activity which penetrates every other human activity
(see books).
My Philosophical position: In general I have two main basic philosophical interests, Philosophy of science and philosophy of civilization. Philosophy of science as well as philosophy of consciousness,
philosophy of physics led me
to the understanding that we have to give up the 'reductionist' mechanical
philosophy together with its 'reductionist' mechanistic laws of nature. The
alternative, in current literature, is not clear till today.
However, several views has been developed based on the basic notion
of 'Naturalism'; either reinterpreting the meaning of the term
'matter', to incorporate the non-mechanical phenomena, or
introducing a new force of nature in addition to the previously
known physical powers, to reach the same goal. For me the central
question, on which I am trying to place some efforts, is to
formalize a set of formal laws that are applicable, only formally,
to the different levels of nature. This formal set is supposed to
replace the unified 'reductionist' mechanical laws which is only applicable to one
level of nature, namely the physical level on the macro scale (i.e.
above the atomic level). This set of formal laws is supposed to
fulfill the required goal, i.e, to present some form of a general
law that govern, human consciousness, minds and societies, on one
category, living bodies and cells, on a second category, as well as
physical bodies, all in a non-mechanistic view. With respect to philosophy of civilization, I embrace the position
of 'Multi-Cultural Modernity'. According to this position Modernity
as a state of the specific society has some features that are
general to humanity as such (for me being modern is equal to being
scientific). And at the same time, modernism may exhibit features
that are unique to the specific society under consideration,
(example, the relation between science and society and hence,
culture and its religious beliefs; subject-object division is not
the only solution in the vicinity). Hence, the real question is to
build the correct relation between the objective aspects of
modernity, such as being rational, objective, critic, realistic,
etc. and the subjective aspects of modernity, such as being a human
that possesses a specific view to the world, a set of basic beliefs,
a view of the role of humans in the world, the meaning of life, etc.
Based on this view Arab-Islamic thought should be introduced as a
humanistic thought before being specific to Arab-Islamic societies.
This mandates introducing such thought on an abstract level with
positive engagement with contemporary human thought. Naturally, I
try in my work to fulfill such a condition. In the following you will find some personal as well as professional
information as well as, links to my writings and excerpts of my
books. |
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