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Ali Larijani, Kant scholar?

Brian Leiter

Jim Holt and Moti Gorin have both pointed out to me that the Wikipedia page for Ali Larijani (one of the most powerful political figures in Iran, not yet killed) reports that he has a Ph.D. in “Western Philosophy” and that he has published books on Kant, Saul Kripke, and David Lewis. There is an English Google Scholar page for an “Ali Larijani” that includes articles on Descartes and Kant, but no books, which, if they exist, are probably in Farsi. Do any readers know? Is the Wikipedia page accurate?

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6 responses to “Ali Larijani, Kant scholar?”

  1. a Persian PhD candidate in philosophy

    Yes, he has three books, all in Farsi, and all about Kant:

    One is on *Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics*. Another is on *Kant’s Metaphysics*. The third is on *Kant’s Synthetic, A Priori Judgements*.

    I roughly translated the titles myself since they’re in Persian. I also haven’t read the books, so I can’t comment on their quality, but I did find them available for purchase on Persian online bookshops.

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  2. S.K

    He is a Kant scholar and a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at University of Tehran. He has authored three books on Kant:
    1. The Mathematical Method in Kant’s Philosophy,
    2. Metaphysics and the Exact Sciences in Kant’s Philosophy, and
    3. Intuition and Synthetic A Priori Judgments in Kant’s Philosophy.
    The works on Saul Kripke are likely due to his brother, who studied at UC Berkeley and is interested in mathematical logic and contemporary philosophy.

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  3. S

    He has also written a book on Descartes’ Discourse.

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  4. sadat miralimor

    Yes and one of his brothers javad larijani is a logician/politician and he was a student of Alfred tarski; also something you will be particularly interested in Abbas Araghchi did his PhD at Kent and his supervisor was David Mclellan.

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  5. sadat miralimor

    Follow up; not sure about the tarski claim but the Araghchi claim is correct

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  6. Stephen Menn

    There was an article on Ali Larijani as philosopher and politician by Gideon Lev in the English Haaretz for March 14, two days before Larijani was killed. The article isn’t very philosophically sophisticated, but it gives some interesting background on Larijani. Some of the Iranian élite have some surprising intellectual interests, notably Popper.

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