Critical Reading Group hopes to engage with the writing of thinkers, scientists, philosophers and theologians – some well-known, others not so well-known – who have had or continue to have a profound, perhaps surprising influence in the world of ideas as we experience it today. We anticipate that the group will consist of Muslims who take seriously but critically the undeniable edifice of most, if not all, great civilizations: fellowship, faith, learning and scholarship.
Please have a look below for our weekly topics and discussions
The group will meet weekly and, following a main presentation by a convener, discuss and debate the issues contained in and raised by readings from a core set of texts. We also hope that the secondary, transferable skills of critical thinking, systematic enquiry and collaborative learning are developed along the way. Above all, participants should bear in mind that neither agreement nor closure on subjects will be given much weight.
The details of the meetings are as follows:
VENUE: King’s College London (Strand Campus), Room 4A, Chesham Building (Map)
TIME: 6.30pm until 8pm DAY: Every Tuesday
CONVENORS: Dr Usama Hasan (Senior Lecturer, Middlesex University) & Dr Mahbub Gani (Lecturer, King’s College London)
CONTACT: mahbub.gani{at}kcl.ac.uk
Lists of previous and upcoming themes and subjects in chronological order:
Belief in God in an Age of Science: John Pilkinghorne
30th October 2007 - 6th November 2007
Convenor: Dr Usama Hasan
Philosophy of Science I: Do facts precede theory? Inductivism
13th November 2007
Convenor: Mahbub Gani
Philosophy of Science II: Falsificationism. Theories as structures and Kuhn
20th November 2007
Convenor: Mahbub Gani
Wittgenstein I: Introduction to "Tractatus Logico Philosophicus"
27th November 2007
Convenor: Iman Poernomo
Wittgenstein II: Life after "Tractatus"
4th December 2007
Convenor: Iman Poernomo
The Captive Mind: Syed Hussein Alatas
11th December 2007
Covenor: Fuad Ali
22nd January 2008
Ethics II: Kantian Ethics I (Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals)
5th February 2008
Ad Hoc Theme: Archbishop Speech
12th February 2008
Ethics II: Kantian Ethics II (Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals)
19th February 2008
Ethics II: Kantian Ethics III (Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals)
26th February 2008
4th and 11th March 2008
Post-Colonial Studies I: Edward Said's Orientalism
18th March - 1st April 2008
Convenor: AbdoolKarim Vakil
22nd and 19th April 2008
Convenor: Tayeb Sherif
6th and 13th May 2008
Convenor: Dr Saira Malik
Applied Sociology: Poltical and Technological Change in Indonesia
20th May 2008
Convenor: Hassan Hoque
Application of Maqasid ul-Shari'ah
27th May 2008
Convenor: Fuad Ali
Philosophy of Science III: Quine and the Two Dogmas of Empericsim
3rd June 2008
Convenor: Dr Mahbub Gani
Post-Colonial Studies II: Fanon and Hijab
10th June 2008
Convenor: Dr Mahbub Gani
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