Zainal Abidin Bagir is a doctoral candidate at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University. His previous education includes undergraduate in mathemathics (Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia) and Master's program in Islamic philosophy and science (International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization, Kuala Lumpur). His Master's thesis on The Problem of Definition in Islamic Logic (al-Faridi's and Ibn Taimiyyah's Criticisms) was published by ISTAC (1998). Since 2002 he has been a staff at the Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies, Gadjah Mada