Name Nijaz Ibrulj Region Western philosophy | Role Philosopher | |
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Born 2 July 1956 (age 67) ( 1956-07-02 ) Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia Main interests Logic, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of language, Cognitive science Notable ideas Principle of the Logical Areas of interest Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of language, Cognitive science, Logic Influenced by John Searle, Donald Davidson | ||
Philosophical era Contemporary philosophy Schools of thought Analytic philosophy | ||
Nijaz Ibrulj (born 2 July 1956) is a Bosnian philosopher and a professor at the University of Sarajevo's Department of Philosophy and Sociology. He lectures on logic, analytic philosophy, methodology of social sciences, theory of knowledge, and cognitive science. His interests also extend to the field of social ontology. In 2000-2001 Ibrulj was awarded a Fulbright Visiting Scholarship to visit the University of California at Berkeley, where he worked with John Searle and Donald Davidson.
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Academic activities
Ibrulj is the founder and president of the Academia Analitica, a learned society for the development of logic and analytic philosophy in Bosnia and Herzegovina and director of the "ZINK", a scientific and research incubator. He is the founding editor of SOPHOS, a young researchers’ journal and of The Logical Foresight, a journal for logic and science.
Work in philosophy
Ibrulj has written extensively on various topics of analytic philosophy, philosophical logic, and philosophy of language, cognitive science and social ontology.
In his book Philosophy of Logic (1999), he introduced a theory named the Principle of the Logical. He defines the Principle of the Logical as an ideal matrix of the logical principles or laws of thought (the law of identity, the law of non-contradiction, the law of excluded middle, the law of sufficient reason).
In the book The Century of Rearrangement (2005), Ibrulj investigated the concepts of relation between identity and knowledge in an ambient of intelligent space, which is designed by modern informational and communicational technology, nanoscience and nanotechnology, and the processes of globalisation. He made a distinction between two theories of identity: a strong theory of identity (“anchored identity”) and a weak theory of identity (“mobile identity” or “identity in action”).
Ibrulj has also translated from English (Donald Davidson), German (Gottlob Frege), and Ancient Greek (Bosnian–Greek edition of Porphyry's Isagoge).