Stefano Bigliardi is a specialist on the
Islam and science discourse. He is an associate professor at
Al Akhawayn University
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Ifrane
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Morocco
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Biography
Stefano pursued his undergraduate degree in philosophy at the
University of Bologna
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, completing it in 2004 with a thesis centered on
Kantian
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aspects in the philosophy of language of
Robert B. Brandom, under the supervision of E. Picardi.
He later obtained his PhD in Philosophy of Science in 2008 through a joint program between the University of Bologna and the
University of Konstanz
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Germany
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. His dissertation, focused on the concept of belief, was completed under the guidance of M. C. Galavotti and W. Spohn. Stefano began his postdoctoral research with a fellowship at the University of Konstanz, where he also spent five years teaching languages at the university's Language Institute.
In 2011, he moved to
Sweden
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to take on a research and teaching position at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at
Lund University
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, where he remained until 2013. From 2013 to 2015, he taught philosophy at
Tecnológico de Monterrey
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in
Mexico City
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. Stefano later became a Fellow at the
Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue in
Geneva
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Switzerland
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, during 2015–2016.
Since August 2020, he has held the position of associate professor of philosophy at AUI. In 2021, he also began co-editing the Cambridge University Press Elements series titled "Islam and the Sciences" with astrophysicist
Nidhal Guessoum
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His research interests range from gamma-ray astrophysics, such as positron-electron annihi ...
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Works
* ''Islam and Science: Past, Present, and Future Debates'' (2023)
* ''New Religious Movements and Science'' (2023)
* ''La mezzaluna e la luna dimezzata: Islam, pseudoscienza e paranormale'' (The Crescent and the Splitting Moon: Islam, pseudoscience and the Paranormal, 2019)
* ''Islam and the Quest for Modern Science'' (2014)
[Reviews of ''Islam and the Quest for Modern Science'':
* S. Kamal Abdali (2014). On Bigliardi's Islam and the Quest for Modern Science, Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, Vol. 3, No. 9, pp.55-56.]
References
Further reading
* Howard, Damian. “Some Reflections on Stefano Bigliardi’s ‘On Harmonizing Islam and Science’” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 3, no. 10 (2014): 50–52.
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* Azadegan, Ebrahim (2014). Islamic Science: A Missed Subject in Bigliardi's Monograph? Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, Vol. 3, No. 10, 12–15.
External links
Google scholar page
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Academic staff of Al Akhawayn University
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people