Fedor Benevich
Senior Lecturer
- Philosophy
- Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: Fedor.Benevich@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room 7.10
- City
- 40 George Square, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JX
Availability
Office Hours: Thursday, 2pm-4pm. You need to book a slot in advance through the link: https://calendly.com/fbenevic/fedor-benevich-office-hours
Background
I received my BA in Byzantine and Mondern Greek Studies from the University of St Peterburg in 2011 and my MA in Islamic Studies from the University of Tübingen in 2013. I completed my PhD in Philosophy at the LMU Munich in 2016 under the supervision of Prof Peter Adamson. Before I joined the University of Edinburgh, I worked at the LMU in the DFG-funded research project “The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East from the 12th to the 13th Century."
CV
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Responsibilities & affiliations
British Society for the History of Philosophy
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
Centre for Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Undergraduate teaching
This year, I am teaching Islamic Philosophy and Introduction to the History of Philosophy.
Postgraduate teaching
Islamic Philosophy (PG)
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
Rafael Taghiyev
Sadik Ameer
Samir Zhani
Yamama Dayoub
Karim Shoaib
Kübra Bahçi (visiting)
Ebrar Akdeniz (visiting)
Research summary
In my research, I focus on the history of metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind in the Islamic world. I have written on the critical adaptation of ancient philosophical theories in the Arabic intellectual tradition, Islamic philosophical theology (kalām), and post-classical Islamic philosophy. I am also interested in contemporary metaphysics and epistemology.