Arif Ahmed (philosopher)
Arif Mohuiddin Ahmed is a philosopher at the University of Cambridge, where he became a fellow of Gonville and Caius College in 2015, university reader in philosophy in 2016, and Nicholas Sallnow-Smith College Lecturer in 2019. His interests in philosophy include decision theory and religion, from an atheist and libertarian point of view. At Cambridge he has been an advocate for tolerance of diverse political views, in reaction to the university administration's cancellation of an invitation to the politically conservative academic Jordan Peterson. Ahmed was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE ) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to education. Books. Ahmed is the author of the books "Saul Kripke" (Continuum Books, 2007), which analyses the philosophy of Saul Kripke, and "Evidence, Decision and Causality" (Cambridge University Press, 2014), which defends evidential decision theory and critiques causal decision theory. He is the editor of: