Semantics of Philosophy of Science in Islamic Philosophy

Dadjoo, Ebrahim

doi:10.22034/hpi.2025.496541.1126

Semantics of Philosophy of Science in Islamic Philosophy

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Ebrahim Dadjoo

Associate professor of department of ‘epistemology and cognitive science’ in Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Thought (iict).

10.22034/hpi.2025.496541.1126

Abstract

In Islamic philosophy, as much as get away from ontology and get over to epistemology, gradually get away from Plato and Plotinus and it have inclined to Aristotelian realism and intellectualism. Aristotelian philosophy of science and, with follow that, Islamic philosophy of science have accepted three principal (1) being science of metaphysics, (2) being essences and essential properties, (3) necessity of realistic analyses from essences and essential properties. But, philosophy of sciences after from Newton, gradually, have denied all of that three. New essentialism is to agree with greater of fundamental principles of Aristotelian essentialism, but they weakness that we can with their inspection to pace toward philosophy of science that we can call Islamic philosophy of science.

The difference of these watchtowers is in difference of those metaphysics. And I find promoted metaphysics of Islamic philosophy more realistic and more intellectual from metaphysics of meta-Newton(Human metaphysics), and I find epistemology and methodology of contemporary Islamic philosophy of science more realistic and more intellectual from epistemology and methodology of philosophies and contemporary philosophy of sciences, and even more realistic and more intellectual from epistemology and methodology of new essentialism

Keywords

metaphysics

philosophy of science

essences and essential properties

realistic analysis

finality

Islamic rationality

Subjects

Comparative philosophy

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