Stefano Bigliardi

Stefano Bigliardi is a specialist on the Islam and science discourse. He is an associate professor at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco.

Biography

Stefano pursued his undergraduate degree in philosophy at the University of Bologna, completing it in 2004 with a thesis centered on Kantian aspects in the philosophy of language of Robert B. Brandom, under the supervision of E. Picardi. He later obtained his PhD in Philosophy of Science in 2008 through a joint program between the University of Bologna and the University of Konstanz in Germany. His dissertation, focused on the concept of belief, was completed under the guidance of M. C. Galavotti and W. Spohn. Stefano began his postdoctoral research with a fellowship at the University of Konstanz, where he also spent five years teaching languages at the university's Language Institute. In 2011, he moved to Sweden to take on a research and teaching position at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University, where he remained until 2013. From 2013 to 2015, he taught philosophy at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico City. Stefano later became a Fellow at the Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue in Geneva, Switzerland, during 2015–2016. Since August 2020, he has held the position of associate professor of philosophy at AUI. In 2021, he also began co-editing the Cambridge University Press Elements series titled "Islam and the Sciences" with astrophysicist Nidhal Guessoum.

Works

• Islam and Science: Past, Present, and Future Debates (2023)
• New Religious Movements and Science (2023)
• La mezzaluna e la luna dimezzata: Islam, pseudoscienza e paranormale (The Crescent and the Splitting Moon: Islam, pseudoscience and the Paranormal, 2019)
• Islam and the Quest for Modern Science (2014)

Further reading

• Howard, Damian. “Some Reflections on Stefano Bigliardi’s ‘On Harmonizing Islam and Science’” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 3, no. 10 (2014): 50–52.
• Guessoum, Nidhal (2015). "Islam and Science: The Next Phase of Debates : with Nidhal Guessoum, "Islam and Science: The Next Phase of the Debates"; and Anindita Niyogi Balslev, "'Science–Religion Samvada' and the Indian Cultural Heritage."". Zygon. 50 (4): 854–876. doi:10.1111/zygo.12213. ISSN 0591-2385.
• Azadegan, Ebrahim (2014). Islamic Science: A Missed Subject in Bigliardi's Monograph? Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, Vol. 3, No. 10, 12–15.

External links

• Google scholar page