abu hafs al-haddad was one of the masters and founders of malāmatiyya (or malamatis) in nishapur in the 9th century (about 3rd hijri century). through a deep study of ancient sources, in present article, we have rendered some valuable details about his life and family, some of the aspects that reflect the main lines of his thoughts have been made clear, on one hand; and the principles of malāma...

I begin with the assumption that a philosophically significant tension exists today in feminist philosophy of religion between those subjects who seek to become divine and thosewho seek their identity inmutual recognition.My critical engagement with the ambiguous assertions of Luce Irigaray seeks to demonstrate, on the one hand, that a woman needs to recognize her own identity but, on the other...

Like morally sensitive hospital staff, philosophers resist routine simplification of morally complex cases. Like hospital clergy, they favour reflective and principled decision-making. Like hospital lawyers, they refine and extend the language we use to formulate and defend our complex decisions. But hospital philosophers are not redundant: they have a wider range of principles and categories a...

Adaptation of a component-based system can be achieved in the coordination modelling language Paradigm through the special component McPal. McPal regulates the propagation of new behaviour and guides the changes in the components and in their coordination. Here we show how McPal may delegate part of its control to local adaptation managers, created on-the-fly, allowing for distribution of the a...

This article examines the definitions of place or location (topos) and as a consequence, space, in Byzantine philosophy, from Maximos Confessor to Photios. These philosophers draw, on one hand, Aristotelian, Platonic, Neoplatonic sources, other Judeo-Christian tradition. Firstly, sets out novel definition which is conceptually inseparable time, needed for substances exist, boundary between crea...