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Dr. Majid Amini
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Colson 101J
email: mamini@vsu.edu
Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of London, 1999
B.A. (First Class Honors), Philosophy, University of London, 1986
Research Areas
- Philosophical Logic
- Philosophical Psychology
- Philosophy of Religion
- Postcolonial Philosophical Thought
Courses Taught
Undergraduate:
- Introduction to Philosophy
- Critical Thinking
- Introduction to Logic
- Philosophy of Mind
- Philosophy of Language
- Philosophy of Psychology
- History of Modern Philosophy
- Philosophical Logic
- Epistemology
- Philosophy of Education
Postgraduate
- Philosophy of Mind
- Philosophy of Language
Selected Publications
Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters
- ‘Caribbean Philosophy or Philosophy in the Caribbean?’, Shibboleths: A Journal of Comparative Theory, 1: 81-90, 2007
- ‘Revelation in the Reflections of Reason’, New Blackfriars, 87: 406-417, 2006
- ‘Behaviourism Is Back!’, Minerva, 8: 257-275, 2004
- ‘Has Foundationism Failed?’, Human Nature Review, 3: 119-123, 2003
- ‘“Meditations” on Modernity’, Minerva, 7: 208-219, 2003
- ‘Thagard’s Coherentism’, Philosophical Books, 43: 136-140, 2002
- ‘Education and Intellectual Adaptability: A Philosophical Perspective’, in Sociology of Education, ed. T. Bastick and A. Ezenne, Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2002
- ‘Religious Discourse and Identity’, Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion, 6: 73-90, 2001
- ‘Religion in Education: A Matter of Inclusion or Exclusion?’, in Including the Excluded, ed. M. Ainscow and P. Mittler, University of Manchester and Inclusive Technology, 2001
- ‘Frege and Bradley on Psychologism’, Bradley Studies, 6: 176-192, 2000
Reference Articles
- ‘Evil and the God of Love’, Masterplots II: Christian Literature, edited by John K. Roth, Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2007
- ‘Warranted Christian Belief’, Masterplots II: Christian Literature, edited by John K. Roth, Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2007
- ‘Joseph Butler’, in Great Lives from History: The 18th Century, 1701-1800, edited by John Powell, Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2006
- ‘Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man’, in Great Events from History: The 18th Century, 1701-1800, edited by John Powell, Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2006
- ‘Condillac’s Sensationalist Theory’, in Great Events from History: The 18th Century, 1701-1800, edited by John Powell, Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2006
- ‘Holbach’s Système de la nature’, in Great Events from History: The 18th Century, 1701-1800, edited by John Powell, Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2006
- ‘Censorship’, in The Fifties in America, edited by John C. Super, Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2005
- ‘Slippery Slope Arguments’, in Ethics, Revised Edition, edited by John K. Roth, Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2004
- ‘Weakness of Will in Taking Action’, in Ethics, Revised Edition, edited by John K. Roth, Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2004
Book Reviews
- Review of Philosophical History and the Problem of Consciousness, by Paul Livingston (Cambridge University Press, 2004), Metapsychology, November 2004
- Review of Coherence in Thought and Action, by Paul Thagard (MIT Press, 2000), Metapsychology, November 2001
- Review of Enchanted Looms: Conscious Networks in Brains and Computers, by Rodney Cotterill (Cambridge University Press, 1998/2000), Metapsychology, May 2001
- Review of Modernity and Subjectivity: Body, Soul, Spirit, by Harvie Ferguson (University Press of Virginia, 2000), Metapsychology, December 2000
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