Ahmet Hadi Adanalı Lecturer in Philosophy, Ankara Resident at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: May–July 2023 Research topic at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: »The cognitive capacities in the Qur’ân« Project outline: Reason and rationality have become the central topics of research in cognitive science, a relatively new discipline that was initiated during the second half of the twentieth century with the so-called »cognitive revolution«. The studies in this domain increased exponentially and opened new venues of research areas. The interdisciplinary research relating cognitive science to other disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, linguistics, economics, law, and medicine is on the rise, and valuable work has recently emerged out of this joint interest. Attempts to relate the research outcomes in cognitive science to the problems in religious studies remain relatively new and only a small number of studies have been conducted so far. For Muslims, the Qur’ân is a spiritually motivating, mentally stimulating, psychologically reassuring, and behaviorally demanding book. The Qur'ân has also an astonishingly rich vocabulary concerning cognitive, rational, and emotive capacities. This research project is a modest step forward to understanding the intimate relationship between the natural capacities of reason and rationality, and the spiritual tendency to believe, drawing upon the contemporary studies in cognitive science and the Qur’ân hermeneutics. (Ahmet Hadi Adanalı) Research partner: Dr. Ahmet Hadi Adanalı follows the invitation of Ömer Özsoy, Professor of Qur’an Exegesis at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and Goethe Fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften. His stay is supported by the Goethe Fellow Project »Reconstructing the Dynamics of the Emergence and Formation of Islam«. Scholarly profile of Ahmet Hadi AdanalıAhmet Hadi Adanali received his B.A. in Religious Studies at Ankara University in 1985, his M.A. in Philosophy at Middle East Technical University, and his Ph.D. in Islamic Philosophy at the University of Chicago in 1995. Between the years 1995-2016, he lectured at Ankara University on various subjects including history, philosophy, and theology. He also taught as a visiting scholar at several universities including Bilkent University and Gazi University in Ankara, and Gregorian University in Rome. Between the years 2005-2016, he worked as a senior advisor at the Office of the Prime Ministry, Republic of Turkey. He was involved with the UN Alliance of Civilizations Project since its inception in 2005 and coordinated its activities in Turkey until 2016. Between the years 2008-2010, he was a member of the administrative board of Anadolu News Agency. Recently, he has been lecturing online at the Institute of Islamic Thought in Ankara.Main areas of research: Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Analytic Philosophy, Critical Thinking and Argumentation, Language and Logic, Science and Religion
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