الزمان في الفلسفة والعلم

Youmna Tarif El-Khouly: Professor of Philosophy of Science and Research Methods, and former Head of the Philosophy Department at the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University. She contributed to enriching the Arab intellectual movement with her distinguished effort to spread scientific culture and the logic of scientific thinking, activate and settle them in our civilization, through her books that exceed twenty-five authored and translated books, and her research in Arabic and English in refereed scientific journals, local, regional and international, as well as dozens of articles, studies, and lectures. She delivered it in various universities and research centers, from the far east in Kyoto to the far west in Hawaii, to the heart of Africa, and through most of the Arab countries. She represented Egypt and participated in her research in many international conferences in Cairo, Kuwait, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Japan, Malaysia and the United States of America. She was a Visiting Fellow at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, and as a Postgraduate Professor she contributed to the establishment of the Department of Philosophy at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria; The second largest university in Africa after Cairo University, and study began in 2014. She visited the universities of Iowa, Houston and Hawaii in the United States of America, and Damascus and Al-Ain in the United Arab Emirates. Youmna Tarif Amin Al-Khouli was born at the end of August 1955, into a family interested in science and culture. She spent part of her early life in England, and obtained her first sustenance from her father’s library, who taught her “how to extract the nectar of life and the prospects of lavish wealth from the pages of books,” as she mentions in the introduction to her book “Amin al-Khouli and the Philosophical Dimensions of Renewal.” Where she dealt with the features of the thought of her grandfather, who stands with his rational methodology among the reformist Islamists and the first generation of senior professors at Fouad I University. Youmna Al-Khouli was always one of the first, and she chose to study philosophy with certainty. She obtained her BA with excellent grades with honors from Cairo University in 1977, and was appointed as a teaching assistant in the Department of Philosophy. In 1981, she obtained a master's degree for her thesis "The Philosophy of Natural Sciences for Karl Popper". It was the first Arab study of this philosopher, who is considered one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century and the first philosopher of the scientific method. In 1985, she obtained a doctorate with first honors on the topic “The Principle of Indeterminacy in Contemporary Science and the Problem of Freedom.” She rose in academic positions until she became a professor in June 1999, then head of the Department of Philosophy (from February 2006 to February 2009). She supervised twenty-four master's and doctoral theses, and approved theses at Egyptian and Arab universities. This is in addition to membership of many scientific committees and societies, including: the Committee for the Promotion of Philosophy Professors in Egypt, the Committee on History and Philosophy of Science at the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, the Egyptian Society for the History of Science, the Philosophy Committee at the Supreme Council of Culture, and a scientific committee at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina; As well as a member of the Board of Directors of the Egyptian Philosophical Society, and the editorial boards of scientific journals. She provided consultations for developing regulations, course descriptions, and research arbitration methods in Egyptian and Arab universities and cultural institutions at the Arab level. Several studies and articles that have been exposed to her intellectual production have been published in various parts of the Arab world, and a master’s thesis entitled “Philosophy of Science at Youmna Tarif El-Khouli” has been published at the University of Constantine in Algeria, and others are being prepared in other universities. In recognition of her intellectual generosity, she received fourteen scientific prizes; Among them are the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation Award for Young Arab Scientists (1990), the Bashraheel Prize for Cultural Creativity in Future Studies (2004), the State Prize for Excellence in Social Sciences (2011), and the Cairo University Appreciation Award (2016), as Kuwait chose her as the personality of the eighth Qurain Cultural Festival. ten years 2012; She was the second and last woman to receive this high honor, after the wife of former President Suzanne Mubarak. In this festival, the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters in the sisterly State of Kuwait published a brochure introducing Dr. Youmna, which stated: “Her contributions in the fields of human sciences have diversified to such an extent that it is difficult to limit them to a specific axis, or fields without others; For this reason, it is impossible to do justice to her or to appreciate her in full, no matter what is written about her here and there. It is a perpetual scientific and intellectual movement, spreading its glow everywhere. It is one of the foundations of thought and philosophy in the Arab region.”