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Dilshad Murad

Dilshad Murad Musa Mzwri is a physician, and an instructor of bioethics at Hawler Medical University in Kurdistan, Iraq. He is currently pursuing an international certificate in the principles of bioethics and human rights under the department of education, UNESCO chair in bioethics/University of Haifa, Israel.

An autodidact in philosophy—when he is not otherwise occupied with clinical life—his philosophical interests gravitate around various areas of philosophy, particularly Wilfrid Sellars’ pragmatic naturalism. He is focusing on deploying philosophical concepts in an attempt to humanize the biomedical sciences in a humanist philosophy of medicine.

Articles

Escaping Post-Sellarsian Marxism’s Transcategorial Maze – Part II

[Due to space constraints, the foregoing essay was published in two instalments. Part I can be found here.—Ed.] 2. A Desperate Marxist’s Attempt We need but a moment of reflection to realize that the problematic of real abstraction in Marxism is the tortuous issue of the transposition of the language of normativity onto that of… Read More »

Escaping Post-Sellarsian Marxism’s Transcategorial Maze – Part I

Due to spatial constraints, the foregoing essay will be published in two installments.—Ed. Introduction For picturings to picture the pictureds; at the very least, for descriptions to index the world, the framework of picturing or the descriptive language of the sciences have to be committed to a worldly ontological complexity, causal uniformity, or an immutable “dimension of givenness… Read More »

De-Epistemization of Manifest Reality: A Teratology of Philosophy

  The line of thought common to Blumenberg, Nietzsche, Freud and Davidson suggests that we try to get to the point where we no longer worship anything, where we treat nothing as a quasidivinty, where we treat everything – our language, our conscience, our community – as a product of time and chance. — Richard… Read More »