"Philosophy asks what I take to be the most important questions humans can pursue: What should I do? What is the good life? What can I know? What is the good society? And so on. This is exciting enough. But additionally, when you pursue these questions with an open mind, you don't know what your life will look like in five years. This turns life into an adventure."
"I like meeting with friends, working out, hiking, reading classical literature and popular science (just finished Voltaire's Candide), watching movies, and traveling. I also love reading about tech and finance. These are the main ones, though they keep changing. I used to travel a lot more and tried to see every corner of the cities I visited. Now I spend more time reading, chatting, and watching movies. I rate the movies I watch on IMDb."
Ismail Kurun is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Vanderbilt University working in social and political philosophy, Islamic and medieval philosophy, the philosophy of AI, and ethics. He is writing a dissertation on the epistemology of liberalism and the liberalization of nonliberal societies. A model shows how nonliberal, particularly Muslim-majority, societies can liberalize through internal intellectual dynamics. The model introduces "philosophical liberalization" as a novel form distinct from political and economic liberalization by focusing on belief systems rather than institutions. Personal interests include meeting friends, working out, hiking, reading classical literature and popular science, watching movies, and traveling.
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