Research and Publications (1):

Books (including authored books, edited anthologies & translations in English & Persian) Published and Forthcoming

• The Quran vs. The Theory of the Evolution: A Critical Assessment of the Contrasting Views of Two Prominent Iranian Scholars of the 20^thc: Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Tabatabaee & Dr Yadollah Sahabi, London & New York: Routledge, 2021.
• Ethics, Epistemology, and Religion: Further Themes from a Critical Rationalist Reading of Islam, London & New York: Routledge, 2021.

• Analytic Philosophy: Problems and Perspectives, A second, revised and enlarged edition, Tehran: Tarh-e Nou, 2021. The first edition of this book was awarded the Book of the Year Prize in 2004.

Published

• Science, Society and Development: Essays on the Public Understanding of Science (Tarvij-e Ilm dar Hiteh-ye Umumi), Tehran, National Institute for Science Policy, 2021.
• Religious Science, Indigenous Science, and Islamic Science: Thinking the Impossible or Thinking Ahead of Time: An Anthology of Ideological Projects of Knowledge Production, Plus Two Critical Assessment of the Views of Two Iranian Thinkers on Science, Tehran: University Press Centre, A new enlarged, annotated edition of Mortada Motahhari, Understanding the Islamic Sciences, with a new introduction, London ICAs Press, 2019.

• Andishe Mostaqbal (Thinking about the Future: Essays Concerning Futures Studies), Tehran: Institute for Cultural and Social Research, 2018.
• Islam, Modernity and a New Millennium: Themes from a Critical Rationalist Reading of Islam, London & New York: Routledge, 2018. This book was awarded on 15^th May 2018 by the Iranian Embassy in London as one of the three best scholarly books on Iran and Islam published in 2017-early 2018.
• Rah va Rasm-e Manzel-ha (Tools of the Trade: Essays on, and from the viewpoint of, Human Sciences), Tehran: Institute for Cultural and Social Research, 2018.
• Greh Goshaee Be Shiveh-ye Philosophan va Mohandesan (Problem-solving in Accordance with the Approaches of Philosophers and Engineers: Essays Concerning Science, Technology and Science Policy), Tehran: Institute for Cultural and Social Research, 2017.
• A Persian Translation of “A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, John Losee, Oxford University Press, 3rd English edition, 2001,” Tehran: Samt University Press, 9^th expanded Persian edition (translator & co-author with Jalal Besharati), 2017.
• Analytic Philosophy from the Perspective of Critical Rationalism, Tehran: Tarh-e Naqd Publications, 2016.
• Habermas and Iranian Intellectuals (with Mohammad Amin Ghaneirad), Tehran: Tarh-e Naqd, 2016.
• A Critical Pathology of the Underdevelopment of Social and Human Sciences in Iran (with H. Ebrahimabadi & B. Arvin), Tehran: Institute for Cultural and Social Studies, 2015.
• A Survey of Some of the Futures Studies Exercises in Different Countries: Themes from the West and the East (editor), Tehran: National Research Institute for Science Policy, 2015.
• The Misty Land of Ideas and the Light of Dialogue: An Anthology of Comparative Philosophy- Western & Islamic, edited by, Ali Paya, London: ICAS Press, 2014, second edition.
• Iraq, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World, edited by Ali Paya & John Esposito, London & New York: Routledge, 2012.
• Socio-Ethical Consequences of Convergent Technologies (with R. Kalantarinezhad), Tehran: National Research Institute for Science Policy, Summer 2011.
• Technology, Culture and Ethics, Tehran: Pazhoheshgah-e Farhang, Honar va Ertebatat-e Islami (Institute for Culture, Art and Islamic Relations), 2009.
• University, Scientific Thinking, Innovation, and the Public Sphere, Tehran: Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, 2005.
• Cultural Studies in the Light of Futures Studies, edited by Ali Paya and Hossein Raghfar, Tehran: National Research Institute for Science Policy & Institute for Management and Planning Studies, 2005.
• Epistemology and Methodology of Futures Studies, Tehran: National Research Institute for Science Policy & Institute for Management and Planning Studies, 2005.
• Modern Technologies and Culture, Tehran: Institute of Culture and Technology, 2005.
• Analytic Philosophy: Problems and Prospects, Tarh-e Nou, Tehran, 2003. (Winner of the Book of the Year Prize (Iran, 2004)
• Think-Tanks: An Engine for Growth in the Twenty-first Century, Tehran: Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, 2004.
• Chief editor, supervising the Persian translation of Manuel Castlls Trilogy: The Information Society (The Rise of the Network Society (1996), The Power of Identity (1997), and End of Millennium (1998) OUP), Tehran: Tarh-e No, 2003.
• A Persian Translation of “Kant, Roger Scruton, Oxford University Press,” Tehran, Tarh-e Nou, 1996. Second edition 2003.
• Dialogue in the Real World: Quixotic Pursuit or Sine Qua Non?, International Centre for Dialogue Among Civilizations in collaboration with Tarh-e Nou, Tehran, 2002.
• A Persian Translation of “The Lesson of this Century, Karl Popper, Routledge, 1998,” Tehran, Tarh-e Nou, 1998.
• A Persian Translation of A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, John Losee, Oxford University Press, 4th English edition, 2001, Tehran: Samt University Press, 4th Persian edition, 2017 (with a completely new chapter added by the author with the assistance of Jalal Besharati) ; First Persian edition from second English edition, Oxford University Press, 1980, published by Markaz-e Nashr-e Daneshgahi (The Iranian University Press), 1982.
• Philosophy: A Text for College Students, Tehran, Ministry of Education (The Organisation for Producing Primary and Secondary School Text Books), 1981.
• History of the World in the Twentieth Century: A Text Book for the Sixth-Formers, Tehran, Ministry of Education (The Organisation for Producing Primary and Secondary School Text Books), 1981.

Research and Publications (2):

Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Reviews (in English & Persian)

1. Forthcoming

“Tusi’s Nasirean Ethics vs. Soroush’s Ethics of Gods: A Critical and Comparative Assessment,” chapter to be published in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Islamic Ethics, edited by Jafar Mahallati, 2021.

“‘Islamization of Knowledge’: A Utopian Dream or a Viable Project? A Critique of the Views of Two Prominent Iranian Proponents of the ‘Islamization Project’”, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2021.

“A Short Note on the Relationship Between Facts and Values”, chapter to be published in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Islamic Ethics, edited by Jafar Mahallati, 2021.

“Science Vs. Religion: The Case of An Historical Intellectual Exchange between Two Shi‘i Scholars”, Journal of Theology and Science, 2021.

“Shi‘as in Britain: The Earliest Cases (Parts III & IV & V)”, Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies (JSIS) 2021.

The Persian translation of “What and How Can We Learn from the Quran: A Critical Rationalist Perspective,” Journal of the Iranian Academy of Science, Autumn 2022.

Review of What is Islam: The Importance of Being Islamic, by Shehab Ahmed, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016, Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies. 2021.

Review of The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology, edited by Sabine Schmidtke, OUP, 2016, Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies. 2021.

Review of Peter Adamson, Philosophy in the Islamic World (Volume three of A History of Philosophy without any Gaps), Oxford: OUP, 2016, Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies. 2021.

1. Published

“Catastrophic Consequences of Technological and Engineering Activities in the Absence of Insights from the Humanities and Social Sciences”, Ayandeh-Negar, No. 111, 2021, pp. 98-100.

“Shi‘as in Britain: The Earliest Cases (Parts III)”, Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies (JSIS) 2021.

The Persian translation of “Shariati’s Unfinished Project,” Siasat-Nameh, No. 15, pp. 129-142, 2021.

“Universal Challenges and Calamities: The Status and Role of the Institution of Higher Education” in, Studies in Higher Education, Science and the Corona Crisis in Iran, edited by Hossein Mirzaei, Tehran: Institute for Social and Cultural Studies

“The Effect of Sin on Scientific Knowledeg: a case study of Stephen Moroney’s approach from a critical rationalist point of view” (paper jointly written by Homa Yazdani and Lutfullah Nabavi), Philosophy of Science (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies), 2020, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp, 203-223.

“Shi‘as in Britain: The Earliest Cases (Part II)”, Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies (JSIS), Summer 2017 Volume X, Number 4 (Joint Paper with Dr Isa Jahangir). N.B. the above issue is the latest issue of the JSIS which due to the Journal’s backlog will be published in January 2020.

“Nihilism and the Information Technology”, Fasl Nameh Pazhohesh-haye Falsafi va Kalami (A Quarterly Journal of Philosophical and Theological Investigations) Joint Paper with Dr Alireza Mansouri), 2020.

“Fiqh as a Technology: Implications and Consequence”, (Joint Paper with Dr Alireza Mansouri), Falsafeh Tahlili (Analytic Philosophy), 2020.

“Weber, Popper and the Methodology of the Social Science: A Comparison from a Critical Rationalist Perspective”, Majalle Jaame Shenasi (Journal of Social Science), Vol. 20. No. 2, pp. 26-64.

“Shi‘as in Britain: The Earliest Cases (Part 1)”, Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies, Summer 2017 Volume X, Number 3 (Joint Paper with Dr Isa Jahangir). N.B. the above issue is the latest issue of the JSIS which due to the Journal’s backlog has been published in October 2019.

“Science and Technology: Differences, Interactions, and Implications”, Falsafeh-ye Ilm (Philosophy of Science), Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 105-134, 2019 (Joint Paper with Dr Alireza Mansouri).

“Philosophical Relationship between Science & Technology”, Ravesh-Shenasi-ye Ulum-e Ensani (The Methodology of Human Sciences), Vol. 25, Consecutive number, 99, pp. 19-33, 2019 (Joint Paper with Dr Alireza Mansouri).

“Justice and Ethics as Totipotent Emergent Properties: A Critical Rationalist Perspective” in the Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Shi‘i Studies, Vol. 4, 2019, London: ICAS Press, pp. 196-225.

“Technology: Rationality and Criticizability vs. Justificationism”, (joint paper with Dr Alireza Mansouri and Ms. Sediqa Qayumi) Zehn (Mind) (Iranian Institute of Islamic Culture and Research), 2019.

“Similarities and Differences between Popper’s Critical Rationalism and Bhaskar’s Critical Realism”, Zehn (Mind), No. 80, 2019, pp. 39-66. (joint paper with Dr Alireza Mohammadi).

“The Role of Intellectuals in the Public Sphere” (joint paper with Hossein Paya), Iran (Newspaper) 2019.

“The Status of University in the Iranian Society in the 21^st Century: Critical Reflections on the New Functions of not a Very New technology”, in The Philosophy of University, edited by Reza Mahoozi, Tehran: Institute of Cultural and Social Studies, 2019.

A Persian translation of David Miller’s “Overcoming the Justicationist Addiction”, Nameh Farhangestan, No. 5, 2019, pp. 145-158.  https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/miller/swpfinal.pdf

“Replies to the Questions Concerning Habermas and the Iranian Intellectuals”, Qlam-Yaran: A Cultural-Social Monthly, November 2018, No. 14. 

“A Brief, though Critical, Assessment of Iran’s First Science and Technology Roadmap”, Rhayaft, No. 71, Autumn 2018.

“Critical Rationalism as a Theoretical Framework for Futures Studies and Foresight”, Futures, no. 96, 2018, pp. 104-114.

“Science and Technology: Differences, Interactions, and Consequences” (joint paper with Dr Alireza Mansouri), Philosophy of Science (Iranian Institute of Human Sciences and Cultural Studies), No.2, Vol. 8, Fall 2018, pp. 105-134.

“A Critical Assessment of Allameh Tabatabaee’s Methodological Approach and methods of interpretation in his Magnum Opus, Tafsir al-Mizan from a Critical Rationalist Point of View”, in Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Shi‘i Studies, Vol. 3, 2017, London: ICAS Press, 2018.

“Fotowwat (Altruistic Magnanimity),  Javānmardī (Chivalry) and Pahlevānī (Ethical Heroism) in the Iranian-Shi’i Thought”, Ishraq: Islamic Philosophy Yearbook, The Russian Academy of Science, No. 8, 2017, pp. 373-379.

“Religious Intellectuals and a Desired Model of Governance” (joint paper with Hossein Paya”, Zeitoon,  11 November 2017, https://zeitoons.com/57289

“Further Replies to Critics Concerning the Epistemic Status of Fiqh”, “Sadra, A Specialist Quarterly for Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Autumn 2017.

“A Popperian (Critical Rationalist) Approach to Religion”, in Karl Popper and the Problem of Change, edited by Halil Rahman Acar, Ankara: Research Institute for Philosophical Foundations of Disciplines, 2017.

“The Epistemic Status of Fiqh”, International Journal of Islam, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2017.

“How to Promote ‘Modern Critical Thinking’ in the Context of Islamic Studies in Virtual Environment?” in E-Learning and Islamic Studies: An International Conference, edited by Morteza Rezaee, London: ICAS Press, 2107.

“If Shariati Was Among Us Today” (co-authored with Hossein Paya), The Legacy of Ali Shariati and the Future of Iran, edited by Mehdi Jaami, Persian Edition, H&S Media 2017.

Persian translation of “Transdisciplinary Approach: A Critical Appraisal from an ‘Islamic Perspective’”, in Farhangestn-e Ulum, the Journal of the Iranian Academy of Science, No. 61, Spring 2017.

“Muslim Philosophies: A Critical Overview”, Synthesis Philosophica, 62 (2) 279-294, January 2016.

“Fiqh and Engineering: Replies to Some Critiques”, Sadra, A Specialist Quarterly for Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 20, Winter 2016, pp. 224-244.

“How to Improve the Efficiency of Human Sciences?”, Journal of Methodology of Human Sciences, Vol. 21, Number 84, 2016.

“The Disenchantment of Reason: An Anti-rational Trend in Modern Shi‘i Thought- Tafkikis”, Journal of Shi’a Islamic Studies, Volume IX, Issue 4, 2016.

“A Critical Assessment of the Programme of ‘Islamic Science’ and ‘Islamisation of Science/Knowledge’”, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 2015, Vol. 29, No. 4, 311–335. (This paper was published in summer 2016 however its publication date is backdated due to the Journal’s being behind its usual calendar.)

“Some Critical Observations Concerning the Epistemological Status of Fiqh”, Sadra: A Specialist Quarterly for Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 5, No. 17, Spring 2016, pp. 172-177.

“Social, Economic, Political, and Intellectual Changes in Iran since 1960s” (Paya, et.al.) in, Handbook of Wellbeing and Quality of Life in the Islamic World, edited by Richard Estes & Habib Tiliouine, Springer, 2016.

“Faqih as Engineer: A Critical Assessment of the Epistemological Status of Fiqh”, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 33 (1), 2016, pp. 25-51. A Persian translation of this paper has appeared in the Iranian Journal of Knowledge Studies in the Islamic University, No. 63, Summer 2015, pp. 173-198.

“Transdisciplinary Approach: A Critical Appraisal from an ‘Islamic Perspective’”, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS), Vol, 32, No. 1, 2015, pp. 23-48. A Persian translation of this paper has appeared in Nameh Farhangestan Ulum (The Journal of the Iranian Academy of Sciences), New Series, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 87-120.

Review of ‘East and West: Allama Jafari on Bertrand Russell, by Seyed Javad Miri, University Press of America, Inc. 2013’, Philosophy East and West, Vol. 65, 2015.

“What and How Can We Learn from the Quran: A Critical Rationalist Perspective”, Islamic Studies, 53, no. 3, 2014, pp. 175-200.

“Abdolkarim Soroush: A Hesitant Rationalist,” Ishraq: Islamic Philosophy Yearbook, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy, No: 6, 2015, pp. 264-272.

“The Irresolvable Contradictions of the Projects of Islamisation of Social Sciences and Humanities” in Prof. Gholamreza Awwani’s festschrift, Tehran: Academy of Philosophy.

“Islamic Philosophy: Past, present, and Future”, Philosophical Traditions, Royal Institute of Philosophy, 2014, pp. 265-321.

“Acquiring Knowledge with a Critical Mind”, Islam Today, September/October 2014

Issue 23, Vol. 2, pp. 16 – 19.

“Scepticism and the Problem of Acquiring Genuine Knowledge: Ghazzali and Popper”, in The Misty Land of Ideas and the Light of Dialogue: An Anthology of Comparative Philosophy- Western & Islamic, edited by, Ali Paya, ICAS Press, 2013.

“Is ‘Islamic Human Sciences’ Possible?”, Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. 1. No. 1. 2013.

“Muslims and Modernity: After Two and a Half Centuries What Have We Learnt?

A Meta-Study of the Main Lessons of an Eventful Encounter”, Islam and Civilisational Studies, Vol. 4, No. 4, 2013, pp. 548-561.

“Imam Ali’s theory of Justice Revisited”, Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies, Vol. VI, No. 1, 2013, pp. 5-30.

“Is Innovation Rule-based?” Journal of Science & Technology Policy, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2013, pp. 79-102.

“How indigenous are ‘indigenous sciences’? The Case of ‘Islamic Sciences’”, in Asia, Europe, and the Emergence of Modern Science: Knowledge Crossing Boundaries, edited by Aron Bala, Palgrave, 2012, pp. 147-166.

“Religious Technology: Nature and Possibility”, Journal of Methodology of Social Sciences and Humanities, vol. 18, no. 73, pp. 7-51.

Review of Michelangelo’s Finger: An Exploration of Everyday Transcendence by Raymond Tallis, 2010. London: Atlantic Books, in Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2012, pp. 236-238.

“Two Unorthodox Methods for Popularising Science”, Journal for Popularising Science, Vol. 1, No. 1. 2012, pp. 8-16.

Review of Islam, Modernity, and the Human Sciences, By Ali Zaidi (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011), Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies Volume 23, Issue 3, May 2012, pp. 403-406.

“Islamic Democracy: A Valid Concept or an Oxymoron?”, in Iraq, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World, edited by Ali Paya & John Esposito, London & New York: Routledge, 2011.

“Introduction”, Iraq, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World, edited by Ali Paya & John Esposito, London & New York: Routledge, 2011.

“The Shape of the Coming Global Civil Society: Suggestions for a Possible Islamic Perspective” in The Islamic Philosophy Yearbook “Ishraq” edited by Janis Esots, published by the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2011, No. 2, pp. 290-305. Another version of the paper was published in ZNAKOVI VREMENA •SARAJEVO •JESEN 2016 -PROLJEĆE 2017 •GODINA XIX-XX •DVOBROJ 74/75 [SIGNS OF THE TIME • Sarajevo • Winter 2016 – Spring 2017 • Vol. XIX-XX • No. 74-75], pp. 99-117.

“The Misguided Conception of Objectivity in Humanities and Social Sciences”, in The Crisis of the Human Sciences False Objectivity and the Decline of Creativity, Edited by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Kuwait: Gulf University for Science & Technology Publications, 2011, (In Electronic Format), pp. 151-184.

Review of Resistance: The Essence of the Islamic Revolution by Alastair Crooke, 2009, Pluto Press, in Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2011, pp. 341-344.

Review of Science and Islam: A History by Ehsan Masood, BBC Publications, 2009, in the Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2011, pp. 231-233.

“Futures Studies in Iran: Learning through Trial and Error” (With H. Shoraka), Futures, Volume 42, Issue 5, June 2010, Pages 484-495.

“The Reception of Kant and his Philosophy in Iran” (with Malekeh Shahi), Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2010, pp. 25-40.

“How best to make sense of Science,” Hekmat va Falsafeh, Vol 4, No. 2, 2008, pp. 81-109.

“A philosophical assessment of the implications of the issue of human dignity for medical researches”, Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, 2008; 1:5, pp. 27-44.

“The Developments of the Philosophy of Science from the Beginning to the Present: A Cursory Overview”, Iranian Journal of Philosophical Investigations, Vol.1, No.2, 2008.

“The notion of ‘Fotowwat‘ [altruistic magnanimity] in the Persian Athletic Sports”, in Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn and Roland Marti (Eds.) Jouer selon les règles du jeu – Playing by the Rules of the Game – Spielen nach den Spielregeln, Reihe: Transcultural Anglophone Studies 2008.

“Is Globalization a Dialogue Among Civilizations?” in Religious Thought, Vol. 20, Spring 2008.

Textbook: Comparative Epistemology (Islamic and Western Perspectives), UK Islamic College for Advanced Studies (Affiliated to Middlesex University), April 2008, (Available on-line for the College’s Postgraduate Distance Learning Programme).

Textbook: Methods and Perspectives in Social Sciences and Islamic studies, UK Islamic College for Advanced Studies (Affiliated to Middlesex University), August 2008, (Available online for the College’s Postgraduate Distance Learning Programme).

“Jonathan Dancy’s Particularism: A Critical Assessment”, The International Journal of Humanities, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 127 – 155, 2008.

“Public Understanding of Science: A Philosophical Appraisal,” Journal of Science Policy, Vol. 1, No.1, 2008.

“A Potent Weapon in the Battle for Hearts and Minds?” Review of Education in the Muslim World: different perspectives, by Rosarii Griffin (Ed), Oxford: Symposium Books, 2006, Higher Education Review, Vol. 40, No. 3, Summer, 2008.

“Hesitant Rationalism”, The CSD Bulletin, Vol. 15, No. 1, Winter 2007-2008.

“In Defence of Universal Moral Principles and Values”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Muslim World in Transition, Leeds: Leeds Metropolitan University Press, 2007, pp. 473-493.

“Iran’s Tryst with Democracy,” Seminar (Special Issue on Experiments with Democracy), edited by Peter de Sousa, No. 576, August 2007.

“Habermas and Iranian Intellectuals,” (with Mohammad Ghaneirad), Iranian Studies, Vol. 40, No. 3, 2007.

“A Critical Assessment of Dancy’s Particularist Approach to Ethics,” Dr Jahangiri’s Festschrift, Tehran: Hermes Publications, 2007.

“Critical Rationalism and Situational Logic: An Effective Approach to the Philosophy of Education”, Educational Innovation Quarterly, 2007.

“The Philosopher and the Revolutionary State: How Karl Popper’s Ideas Shaped the Views of Iranian Intellectuals,” Ali Paya and Mohammad Ghanei-rad, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 20, No. 2, July 2006, pp. pp. 185 – 213.

“Quantum Physics: A Case for Anti-Realism?” Hekmat va Falsafeh (Wisdom and Philosophy), the Academic Journal of Philosophy Department, Allameh Tabatabaee University, Vol. 2, No. 2. July 2006.

“Secular Democracy – Theologizing Politics”, Learning for Democracy, Vol. 2, No.3, 2006.

“Popper in Iran,” in Karl Popper: A Centenary Assessment, edited by Ian Jarvie, Karl Milford, David Miller, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.

“Recent Developments in Shi’i Thought” in Islamic Democratic Discourse: Theory, Debates, and Philosophical Perspectives ed. by M.A. Muqtedar Khan, New York and Oxford: Lexington Books, 2006, pp.123-148.

“What Does Dialogue Entail: The Broad Perspectives,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Environment, Peace and the Dialogue among Civilizations and Cultures, UNESCO Publications, 2005.

“Bazargan: A Paradigm for Religious Intellectuals,” in Bazargan: The Pure Way: Proceedings of the Conference in Commemoration of Mahdi Bazrgan, Tehran: Kavir Publications, 2005.

“Critical Shiʻites”, The CSD Bulletin, Vol. 11/2- Vol. 12/1, winter 2004-5.

“Dialogue among Civilisations: The Theoretical Framework and an Actual Manifestation of an Idea,” in Dialogue Among Civilisations: Collection of Essays in Honour of President Mohammad Khatami, Tehran: Winter 2004-2005.

“For Scientific Realism and Against Constructive Empiricism,” Science & Metaphysics: Dr. Yusuf Ali-Abadi Festschrift, Tehran: Iranian Academy of Philosophy, 2004.

Review of Intellectuals and the State in Iran: Politics, Discourse, and Dilemma of Authenticity, by Negin Nabavi, Gainsville: University Press of California, 2003, published in Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3. Sep. 2004.

“Civil Society in Iran: Past, Present and the Future,” in Exploring Civil Society: Political and Cultural Contexts, Edited by Marlies Glasius, David Lewis and Hakan Seckinelgin, London: Routledge, September 2004.

“Karl Popper and the Iranian Intellectuals,” American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 20, No.2, 2003, pp. 50-79.

“Iran in the Twenty-first Century: Prospect for a Cultural Renaissance?” Sharaf Nameh (Dr. Sharafuddin Khorasani’s Festschrift), Hermes Publications, 2003.

“Dialogue in the Real World,” International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2002, pp. 201-222.

“The Importance of Dialogue,” CSD Bulletin, Summer 2002, Vol. 9, No. 2.

“Reciprocal Knowledge and the Philosophy of Heart: Can Situational Logic and Dialogue Help?” Proceedings of the Conference: Acte des Premiéres Assises Internationales de la Connaissance Réciproque, Bruxelles, September 2002, pp. 94-112.

Review of Richard Khuri’s Freedom, Modernity and Islam: Toward a Creative Synthesis, Journal of Law and Religion, Spring 2001.

“The Future of Democracy in Iran”, CSD Bulletin, Summer 2000, Vol. 7, No. 2.

“Islam, Christianity, and Judaism: Can they ever live peacefully together?” Dialogue, Vol. 2, No. 3, Spring 2001.

“Muslim Identity and Civil Society: Whose Islam? Which Society?” Book Extra Publications, London, 2000.

“Philosophers Against Truth: The Cases of Harré and Laudan” The International Studies in Philosophy of Science Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 255-284, 1995.

“What is this thing called Islamic ethics: Review of Ethical Theories in Islam, Majid Fakhry [1991]” The Muslim News, August 1994, p.7.

“Critical Review of Islam and Modernism, by V.Martin, Tauris & Co., London, Crescent International, January 1992.

“Universities: How Can They Help Us Build A Better World?” (With N. Maxwell), in Modern Science in Crisis: A Third World Response, Third World Network Publications, Penang, 1988.