El Shazly, Adham
Assistant Professor
- Phone
- (403) 329-2748
- adham.elshazly@uleth.ca
Office Hours
Monday 13:00-14:00, or by appointment.
About Me
I am Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lethbridge.
Before that, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, supported by the Clare Hall Thouless Fund Doctoral Prize.
Academic Website: sites.google.com/view/adhamelshazly/home
Publications
(Forthcoming). Thinking Together. Oxford Studies in Epistemology. (Finalist for Marc Sanders Prize in Epistemology)
(2026) Understanding Biology with Machine learning: Compression, Intelligibility, and Dependency. Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences. 9(100161):1-6.
(2025) Communicating Understanding. Australasian Journal of Philosophy.(2025) Inquiring to Understand. Philosophical Quarterly.
Degrees
PhD in Philosophy, University of Cambridge (2025)
Masters in Philosophy, Queen's University (2021)
Bachelors of Philosophy, Carleton University (2019)
Research Interests
(1) Epistemology. Understanding, Inquiry, Attention, Social Inquiry, Philosophy of Education.
(2) Ethics. Hope, Love, and the Moral Imagination.
(3) Islamic Philosophy. Epistemology and Ethics in the Sufi tradition, especially Al-Ghazali and Ibn 'Ata' Allah al-Iskandari.
(4) Iris Murdoch. Imagination, Attention, Love, Moral Inquiry, Humility, and Freedom.