Dr. Nazif Muhtaroğlu​​

Dr. Nazif Muhtaroğlu​ is Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Philosophy at Yale University. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Kentucky, where his dissertation, Islamic and Cartesian Roots of Occasionalism, examined the intellectual foundations of occasionalism across Islamic kalām and early modern philosophy. Following his doctoral studies, he pursued postdoctoral research at Harvard University’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC), and later returned as a Visiting Scholar (2022–2023).

His research engages causality, free will, philosophy of mind, and the philosophical implications of artificial intelligence, bringing classical Islamic theology into dialogue with contemporary analytic philosophy.

He has edited three scholarly volumes and published numerous academic articles. At Yale, he is currently working on a book project exploring the relationship between artificial intelligence and free will through the lenses of Islamic kalām and contemporary philosophy.