On Tuesday, February 15th at 7:00 PM, the sixth session of the seminar series “A Shared Vision for Humanity and the Planet” will be broadcast live on the Kapadokya University YouTube channel. Professor Catarina Belo, a renowned scholar in Islamic Philosophy from the American University in Cairo, will be the guest. Professor Belo, who specializes in Medieval Islamic Philosophy, particularly the works of Ibn Rushd (Averroes) and Ibn Sina (Avicenna) on physics and metaphysics, is the author of several scholarly works, including Chance and Determinism in Avicenna and Averroes (2007), O essencial sobre Averróis (2007), Averroes and Hegel on Philosophy and Religion (2013), and Spirit in Philosophy: A Metaphysical Inquiry (2019). Professor Belo’s book Chance and Determinism in Avicenna and Averroes has been translated into Turkish as İbni Sina ve İbni Rüşd – Belirlenimcilik ve Rastlantı.

The session titled Free Will and Determinism in Classical Islamic Philosophy: Al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, and Ibn Rushd will be moderated by Professor İskender Öksüz.