Nijaz Ibrulj

Nijaz Ibrulj

Full name	Nijaz Ibrulj
Born	July 2, 1956 (1956-07-02) (age 55) Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Main interests	Logic, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of language, Cognitive science
Notable ideas	Principles of the Logical
Influenced by John Searle, Donald Davidson

Nijaz Ibrulj (born 1956, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) 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.^[1][2] 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.^[3]

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.^[4][5] 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 Principles of the Logical. He defines the Principles 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).^[6]

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”).^[7][8]

Ibrulj has also translated from English (Donald Davidson), German (Gottlob Frege), and Ancient Greek (Bosnian–Greek edition of Porphyry's Isagoge).^[9]

Bibliography

Books

• Philosophy of Logic (1999) ISBN 9958-21-112-2
• The Century of Rearrangements. Essays on Identity, Knowledge and Society. (2005) ISBN 9958-9419-0-2
• The Legacy of Porphyrius (2010)

Articles

• Bosnia Porphyriana. An Outline of the Development of Logic in Bosnia and Herzegovina in Pregled, 2, 2009.
• National Dogmatism or the Logic of Consotiation? in Pregled, 1-2, 2006.
• Radical Interpretation of Identity 2008.
• The Adjustment Of Identity: Inquiries into Logic and Semantics of an Uncertain World in Prolegomena, 1, 2005.
• The Rational Construction of the World from Ontology of Sign in Dijalog, 1/2, 2005.
• One-dimensional Society in Pregled, 1/2, 2005.

Translations

• Frege, Gottlob Der Gedanke. Eine logische Untersuchung in Dijalog, 1-2, 1989.
• Davidson, Donald Semantics for Natural Languages in Odjek, 1-2, 1997.
• Davidson, Donald Truth and Meaning in Dijalog, 2, 1998.
• Porphyrius Eisagoge (Isagoge) in Dijalog, 1, 2008.

References

1. ^ http://www.ff.unsa.ba/index.php?option=com_contact&catid=14&Itemid=52
2. ^ Ibrulj, Nijaz Bosnia Porphyriana. An Outline of the Development of Logic in Bosnia and Herzegovina in Pregled, 2, 2009.
3. ^ http://www.zrs-kp.si/EN/zaposleni/bibliografija_in_projekti.htm
4. ^ <http://www.academia-analitica.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=3&Itemid=9
5. ^ http://ziink.wordpress.com/clanovi-2/mentori/
6. ^ Ibrulj Philosophy of Logic (1999), ch. 4, pp. 187-226
7. ^ Ibrulj The Century of Rearrangements. Essays on Identity, Knowledge and Society. (2005), pp. 17-49
8. ^ Arnautovic, Samir Transcendentalna filozofija i odrednice moderne (2009) ISBN 978-9958-9419-2-4 (BiH) ISBN 978-953-95083-4-8 (Cro)
9. ^ Premec, Vladimir Kulturnoznanstvena vrednota in Dijalog, 1, 2009.

External links

• Nijaz Ibrulj at ZINK
• Nijaz Ibrulj at Academia Analitica
• Nijaz Ibrulj at ff.unsa.ba
• Nijaz Ibrulj at COBISS.BA
• Works by Nijaz Ibrulj available for download

Persondata
Name	Ibrulj, Nijaz
Alternative names
Short description	Bosnian philosopher
Date of birth	July 2, 1956
Place of birth	Sarajevo
Date of death
Place of death