Arif Ahmed (philosopher)

Arif Mohuiddin Ahmed MBE is a philosopher at the University of Cambridge, where he became a fellow of Gonville and Caius College in 2015,[1] university reader in philosophy in 2016,[2] and Nicholas Sallnow-Smith College Lecturer in 2019.[3] His interests in philosophy include decision theory and religion, from an atheist and libertarian point of view.[1]

Arif Ahmed in 2013

Ahmed studied mathematics at the University of Oxford and philosophy at the University of Sussex and Cambridge.[4]

At Cambridge he has been an advocate for tolerance of diverse political views, in reaction to the university administration's cancellation of an invitation to the politically conservative academic Jordan Peterson.[5][6][7]

Ahmed was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to education.[8]

In late 2022, the Minister for Women and Equalities, and Trade Secretary, Kemi Badenoch MP appointed Ahmed as new Commissioner to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) Board.[9]

Books

Ahmed is the author of the books Saul Kripke (Continuum Books, 2007), which analyses the philosophy of Saul Kripke,[10] and Evidence, Decision and Causality (Cambridge University Press, 2014), which defends evidential decision theory and critiques causal decision theory.[11]

He is the editor of:

  • Wittgenstein's Philosophical investigations: A critical guide (2010)[12]
  • Newcomb's Problem (2018)[13]

References
  1. "Arif Ahmed". Gonville and Caius College. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  2. "Arif Ahmed". Cambridge Faculty of Philosophy. 7 February 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  3. "Investing in teaching". Once a Caian. No. 19. 2019.
  4. "Professor Arif Ahmed". Gonville & Caius. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  5. Quinn, Ben (10 December 2020). "Cambridge University urged to re-invite rightwing academic Jordan Peterson". The Guardian.
  6. Whitworth, Damian (5 December 2020). "The Cambridge professor fighting 'academic McCarthyism': Freedom of speech is fragile, Arif Ahmed tells Damian Whitworth". The Times.
  7. Turner, Camilla (9 December 2020). "Cambridge University dons win free speech row, defeat new 'authoritarian' rules".
  8. "No. 63377". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 2021. p. B15.
  9. "New EHRC commissioners appointed". 4 December 2022.
  10. Reviews of Saul Kripke: Anton Petrenko, Phil. in Rev., ,
  11. Reviews of Evidence, Decision and Causality: James M. Joyce, J. Phil., doi:10.5840/jphil2016113413; H. Orri Stefánsson, Phil. of Sci., doi:10.1086/684183; Paul Weirich, Notre Dame Phil. Rev.,
  12. Reviews of Wittgenstein's Philosophical investigations: David Macey, Phil. Rev., ; George Lazaroiu, Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, .
  13. Reviews of Newcomb's Problem: J. Dmitri Gallow, Economics & Philosophy, doi:10.1017/S0266267119000178; Jack Spencer, Notre Dame Phil. Rev.,
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