{{short description|American philosopher}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox philosopher | honorific_prefix = | name = Joshua S. Parens | native_name = <!-- add name in the philosopher's language or script if different from the English name --> | honorific_suffix = | image = <!-- filename only, i.e. without the File: (or Image:) prefix or enclosing brackets --> | image_size = | alt = | caption = | other_names = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = <!-- {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living persons, {{birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}} for deceased. For living people supply only the year unless the exact date is already WIDELY published, as per WP:DOB. --> | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | death_cause = | nationality = <!-- use only when necessary per WP:INFONAT --> | spouse = | partner = | children = | family = | relatives = | education = | alma_mater = St. John's College (BA) University of Chicago (PhD) | occupation = | notable_works = <!-- use "notable_works" in place of "books" parameter (deprecated) --> | awards = | signature = | signature_type = | signature_size = | signature_alt = | era = 21st century Philosophy | region = Western philosophy | school_tradition = Medieval Philosophy | institutions = University of Dallas | thesis_title = <!--(or | thesis1_title = and | thesis2_title = )--> | thesis_url = <!--(or | thesis1_url = and | thesis2_url = )--> | thesis_year = <!--(or | thesis1_year = and | thesis2_year = )--> | doctoral_advisor = <!--(or | doctoral_advisors = )--> | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | language = | main_interests = {{flatlist| *Islamic and Jewish medieval philosophy *early modern philosophy *metaphysics *political philosophy}} | notable_ideas = | website = <!-- {{Official URL}} or {{URL|example.com}} --> }}
'''Joshua S. Parens''' is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dallas. He is the dean of Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts.<ref>{{cite web|title=New Dean of Braniff Graduate School: Dr. Joshua Parens|url=http://alumni.udallas.edu/s/818/social.aspx?sid=818&gid=1&pgid=2397&cid=3774&ecid=3774&ciid=12217&crid=0|website=University of Dallas|accessdate=22 April 2018|language=en}}</ref> Parens is known for his expertise on Islamic and Jewish medieval philosophy.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Hozien|first1=Muhammad|title=Joshua Parens, An Islamic Philosophy of Virtuous Religions: Introducing Alfarabi|journal=Journal of Islamic Philosophy|date=2006|volume=2|pages=207–208|doi=10.5840/islamicphil20062114|url=https://philpapers.org/rec/HOZJPA|accessdate=22 April 2018|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Galston|first1=Miriam|title=Parens on Strauss's Recovery of Medieval Political Philosophy - Joshua Parens : Leo Strauss and the Recovery of Medieval Political Philosophy. Rochester Studies in Medieval Political Thought. (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016. Pp. xvi, 191.)|journal=The Review of Politics|date=Summer 2017|volume=79|issue=3|pages=478–481|doi=10.1017/S003467051700033X|s2cid=148819898 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-politics/article/parens-on-strausss-recovery-of-medieval-political-philosophy-joshua-parens-leo-strauss-and-the-recovery-of-medieval-political-philosophy-rochester-studies-in-medieval-political-thought-rochester-ny-university-of-rochester-press-2016-pp-xvi-191/AE10DBAE7E6D9F557055DE24CDE3C058|accessdate=22 April 2018|language=en|issn=0034-6705|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
==Books== * ''Leo Strauss and the Recovery of Medieval Political Philosophy''. University of Rochester Press, 2016. * ''Maimonides and Spinoza: Their Conflicting Views of Human Nature''. University of Chicago Press, 2012. * ''Medieval Political Philosophy: A Sourcebook''. (edited in collaboration with Joseph C. Macfarland) 2nd edition. Cornell University Press, 2011. * ''An Islamic Philosophy of Virtuous Religions: Introducing Alfarabi''. State University of New York Press, 2006. * ''Metaphysics as Rhetoric: Alfarabi's "Summary of Plato's Laws"''. State University of New York Press, 1995. * ''The Foundations and Defense of Laws Plato's Laws and Farabi's Summary'', 1992.
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==External links== * [https://udallas.edu/constantin/academics/programs/philosophy/faculty/parens-joshua.php Joshua S. Parens at University of Dallas] * {{YouTube|wzQgfyoxs1k|Joshua Parens on al-Farabi}}
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