Ali Paya is Professor of Philosophy at the Islamic College (London), Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Ethics of Science and Technology, National Research Institute for Science Policy in Iran, and Visiting Professor of Philosophy of Sciences, Islamic Azad University (Tehran). Professor Paya has studied at the Sharif University of Technology (BSc. Electronic Engineering), University of Tehran (MA. Philosophy), and the University of London (Chelsea/Kings College, MSc. Philosophy of Sciences and Maths.) and (UCL, PhD, Philosophy of Science).
Professor Paya publications include: Analytic Philosophy: Problems and Prospects which was awarded the Book of the Year in Philosophy in 2004 in Iran, Iraq, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World (co-editor, London: Routledge, 2012), The Misty Land of Ideas and the Light of Dialogue: An Anthology of Comparative Philosophy: Western & Islamic (editor, London: ICAS Press, 2013), A Critical Pathology of the Social Sciences and Humanities in Iran (co-author, Tehran: Institute for Cultural and Social Studies, 2015), Analytic Philosophy from a Critical Rationalist Point of View (Tehran: Tarh-e Nou, 2016), Habermas and Iranian Intellectuals (co-author, Tehran: Tarh-e Naqd, 2016), Problem-solving in Accordance with the Approaches of Philosophers and Engineers: Essays Concerning Science, Technology and Science Policy (Tehran: Institute for Cultural and Social Studies, 2017), Tools of the Trade: Essays on, and from the viewpoint of, Human Sciences (Tehran: Institute for Cultural and Social Studies, 2018), Thinking about the Future: Essays Concerning Futures Studies), Tehran: Institute for Cultural and Social Research (Tehran: Institute for Cultural and Social Studies, 2018), A new enlarged, annotated edition of Mortada Motahhari, Understanding the Islamic Sciences, with a new introduction (London ICAs Press, 2019), Islam, Modernity and a New Millennium: Themes from a Critical Rationalist Reading of Islam (2018&2019), Religious Science, Indigenous Science, and Islamic Science: Thinking the Impossible or Thinking Ahead of Time: An Anthology of Ideological Projects of Knowledge Production, Plus Two Critical Assessment of the Views of Two Iranian Thinkers on Science (Tehran: University Press Centre, 2021), Science, Society and Development: Essays on the Public Understanding of Science (Tehran, National Institute for Science Policy, 2021).
Professor Paya has published more than 100 papers in Iranian as well as international academic journals and also as book chapters in Persian and English anthologies. Some of his academic papers are published in Arabic and German. His forthcoming books include Methods, Methodologies and Perspectives in the Humanities and Social Sciences (With Particular Reference to Islamic Studies): A Critical Rationalist Perspective (London: ICAS Press, October 2021), Analytic Philosophy: Problems and Perspectives, A second, revised and enlarged edition (Tehran: Tarh-e Nou, 2021), Ethics, Epistemology, and Religion: Further Themes from a Critical Rationalist Reading of Islam (London: Routledge, 2021), The Quran vs. The Theory of the Evolution: A Critical Assessment of the Contrasting Views of Two Prominent Iranian Scholars of the 20thc: Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Tabatabaee & Dr Yadollah Sahabi, London & New York: Routledge, 2021.
