Research

Journal Articles

• "Imagination and Its Object: Recovering Suhrawardī’s Suspended Images," Philosophers’ Imprint, forthcoming  

  • A blog entry unpacking one aspect of the paper: The world of image — The Junkyard 

• "Tusian Perfectionism," The Journal of Ethics, 2025.

• "Autonomy as Practical Understanding," Ergo, ​2024.

• "Kant's Account of Epistemic Normativity," Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 2022.

• "Ghazālī’s Transformative Answer to Skepticism", Theoria, ​2021. 

• "Creative Imagining as Practical Knowing", Res Philosophica, ​2021.

  • A blog entry where I summarize the idea from this paper: Practical Knowledge and Extramental Imagination — The Junkyard (junkyardofthemind.com)

• with Sara Aronowitz, “Iqbal’s Fractured Vision: History as a Science and the Moral Weight of the Past”, Philosophy East and West, 2020.

Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries

• "Ṭūsī's Ethics", Oxford Handbook of Islamic Ethics, [forthcoming]

• with Hu, Jing Iris "Non-Western Treatments of Imagination," In Amy Kind & Julia Langkau (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination and Creativity, Oxford University Press, 2024.

• "Ghazālī’s epistemology," the Blackwell Companion to Epistemology (3rd ed.), forthcoming

• "Suhrawardi’s Ishraqi epistemology," the Blackwell Companion to Epistemology (3rd ed.), forthcoming

Book Reviews

• Review of "Al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness by Sophia Vasalou," Mind, forthcoming.

• Review of "A Sourcebook in Global Philosophy, edited by Mohammed Rustom," Islamic Intellectual Traditions, 2026.

• "Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond: A New Problem of Evil (review)", Notre Dame Philosophical Review

• Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. 2025.

• “Review of Kant on Freedom and Spontaneity, ed. By Kate Moran,” Kantian Review, 2019.

• Manuscript on moral imagination and virtue ethics with themes from Ṭūsī's Akhlāq Nāṣeri and Suhrawardī's Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq

• "Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn", Stanford Enyclopedia of Philosophy [in prep]

• “Ṭūsī’s Hylomorphic Account of Perfection and the Value of Friendship [tawallā],”  Avicenna, Avicennism(s), and the Later Philosophical Traditions [under review] 

• a paper on practical syllogism and imagination [in progress]