Muhammad Ali Khalidi

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Education

  • Ph.D., Columbia University

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Affiliated Campus(es)

  • CUNY Graduate Center

Research Interests

  • Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Philosophy of Cognitive Science
  • Philosophy of Social Science
  • Classical Arab-Islamic Philosophy 

Representative Publications

  • Cognitive Ontology: Taxonomic Practices in the Mind-Brain Sciences, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

  • Natural Categories and Human Kinds: Classification in the Natural and Social Sciences, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013 (paperback edition 2015)

  • Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings (Editor and Translator), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005

  • “Etiological Kinds,” Philosophy of Science, in press

  • “Natural Kinds as Nodes in Causal Networks,” Synthese 195 (2018), 1379-1396

  • “Crosscutting Psycho-Neural Taxonomies: The Case of Episodic Memory,” Philosophical Explorations 20 (2017), 191-208

  • “Mind-Dependent Kinds,” Journal of Social Ontology 2 (2016), 223-246

  • “Innateness as a Natural Cognitive Kind,” Philosophical Psychology 29 (2016), 319-333

  • “Three Kinds of Social Kinds,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 90 (2015), 96-112

Muhammad Ali Khalidi - Presidential Professor -  profile photo

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Affiliated Campus(es)

  • CUNY Graduate Center

Books