Stefano Bigliardi

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Stefano Bigliardi (born May 11, 1981) is an Italian scholar specializing in the study of religion and science including Islam and modern science, new religion movements and science and ancient astronauts literature. He is an associate professor at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. [1]

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Bigliardi pursued his 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 Eva Picardi. [1] He 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. [1] 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. [1] 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. [1]

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Stefano Bigliardi". Al Akhawayn University. Retrieved 2024-09-20.
  2. ↑ Reviews of La mezzaluna e la luna dimezzata: Islam, pseudoscienza e paranormale:
    • Introvigne, Massimo (2019). "Review: La mezzaluna e la Luna dimezzata. Islam, pseudoscienza e paranormale by Stefano Bigliardi". Nova Religio. 22 (4): 105–107. doi:10.1525/nr.2019.22.4.105. ISSN   1092-6690.
  3. ↑ Reviews of Islam and the Quest for Modern Science:
    • S. Kamal Abdali (2014). On Bigliardi's Islam and the Quest for Modern Science, Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, Vol. 3, No. 9, pp.55-56.

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