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Ashraf Adeel

<p>M. Ashraf Adeel</p><p/><p>Currently Professor and Cahir of Philosophy Department at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, M. Ashraf Adeel has held a Professorship in Philosophy at University of Peshawar and worked as the founding Vice-Chancellor of Hazara University in Pakistan. He was a senior Visiting Fellow at Linacre College Oxford in 1999 and has also served as President of Pakistan&#8217;s Philosophical Congress (the country&#8217;s premier association of philosophers). Adeel has published research articles in philosophy of language, science, Islamic Ethics, and epistemology. His book <em>Epistemology of the Quran: Elements of a Virtue Approach to Knowledge and Understanding </em>(Springer 2019) is the first systematic study of the Quranic epistemology and studies epistemic concepts of the Quran from a contemporary perspective. His book titled <em>How Do We Deal with Different World Views If They Are Based on The Same Evidence: The Philosophical Problem of Underdetermination in Quine and Davidson </em>is a sustained defense of underdetemination and possibility of alternative conceptual schemes or world views both in science and in general. Some recent articles include &#8220;Moderation in Greek and Islamic Traditions and A Virtue Ethics of the Quran&#8221;, <em>The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences</em>, Vol. 32, No. 3, summer 2015, &#8220;The Evolution of Quine's Thinking on the Thesis of Underdetermination and Scott Soames' Accusation of Paradoxicality&#8221;, <em>HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science.</em> Vol. 5, spring 2015, and &#8220;The Concept of Understanding in Jaspers and Contemporary Epistemology&#8221; <em>Existenz, </em>Vol. 10/1, spring 2015. Two of Adeel&#8217;s anthologies of Urdu poems have also come out in 2015 and 2019 from Pakistan. He is also a playwright. He is currently working on a novel and on the Virtue Ethics of the Quran.</p>