Fedor Benevich
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: Thursdays 2:00-4pm. You need to book a time slot in advance: 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
115584.pdf
Responsibilities & affiliations
British Society for the History of Philosophy
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
Centre for Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies
Undergraduate teaching
This year, I am teaching Islamic Philosophy and Introduction to the History of Philosophy.
Postgraduate teaching
Two more courses on Islamic Philosophy, one of them online.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
Rafael Taghiyev
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.
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Avicennian Essentialism
In:
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2021.2007845
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Knowledge as a mental state in Muʿtazilite Kalām
In:
Oriens: Journal of Philosophy, Theology and Science in Islamic Societies, vol. 20, pp. 1-36
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/18778372-12340016
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Bar Hebraeus On Evil: Christian Philosophy Between Arabic Neoplatonism and Islamic Theology
In:
Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, vol. 73, pp. 191-218
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2143/JECS.73.3.3289997
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Meaning and definition: Skepticism and semantics in twelfth-century Arabic Philosophy
In:
Theoria
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12272
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Perceiving things in themselves: Abū l-Barakāt al-Baġdādī’s Critique of Representationalism
In:
Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, vol. 30, pp. 229 - 264
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S095742392000003X
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Representational Beings: Suhrawardī (d. 1191) and Avicenna’s Mental Existence
In:
Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales, pp. 289-317
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2143/RTPM.87.2.3289006
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Individuation and identity in Islamic philosophy after Avicenna: Bahmanyār and Suhrawardī
In:
British Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol. 28, pp. 4-28
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2019.1604316
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The Priority of Natures and The Identity of Indiscernibles: Alexander of Aphrodisias, Yaḥyā b. ʿAdī and Avicenna on Genus as Matter
In:
Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. 57, pp. 209-233
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hph.2019.0023
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
God’s Knowledge of Particulars: Avicenna, Kalām, and The Post-Avicennian Synthesis
In:
Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales, vol. 86, pp. 1-47
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2143/RTPM.86.1.3285913
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The reality of the non-existent object of thought: The possible, the impossible, and mental existence in Islamic philosophy (eleventh–thirteenth centuries)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827030.003.0002
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published)