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Education

September 2024- Present

Phd, Philosophy

Department of Philosophy, western University

 

 

January 2023- April 2024

Master of arts

Department of Philosophy, universITy of Alberta

GPA 4.0/4.0

 

january 2018- august 2021

bachelor of Arts

Department of philosophy, university of tehran

Overall GPA 3.938/4.0  (Ranked in the top 5 percent of my graduate class.)

september 2017- january 2018

Bachelor of arts (incomplete)

department of law, university of Tehran

Passed 16 units (8 courses) in the law department with an overall GPA of 4; ranked in the top

5 percent of my class.

 

 


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RESEARCH INTERESTs

 

·       Philosophy of Science (philosophy of biology, evolutionary developmental biology, Philosophy of Neuroscience)

·       Philosophy of Mind (moral psychology, perception and conceptual systems, mind-brain interactions, philosophy of cognitive science)

·       Moral and Political Philosophy (Virtue Ethics, Spinoza, Marx, Rawls)

·       Philosophy of Social Science and Social Ontology (critical realism of Roy Bhaskar, Marxian political economy and historical materialism)

 

 

conference papers and talks

·       Academic Talk, “Philosophy After Human Catastrophes: Metaphilosophy of Sellars, Quine, and Marx,” Invited as guest Speaker by Aftab Cultural Association, Edmonton, Feb 2025.

 

·       Presentation, “Cultures and Brains:  A Case for Dialectical Conception of Culture in Cultural Neuroscience?” Rotman Graduate Student Conference, Western University, September 2024.

 

·       Presentation, “Cultures and Brains:  A Case for Dialectical Conception of Culture in Cultural Neuroscience?” Western Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Saskatchewan, September 2024.

·       Academic Talk, “Developments and Conceptual Concerns in the Contemporary Philosophy of Biology: An Introduction,” Invited as guest Speaker by the University of Tehran Student Philosophical Association, University of Tehran, August 2024.

 

·       Presentation, “Biology, Dialectics, and Ideology: How to Distinguish Politically Committed Sciences from Politicized Sciences?” Canadian Philosophical Association, McGill University, June, 2024.

·       Presentation “How to not understand Political Polarization: Limits of Cultural approach,” Political Science Graduate Student Association Annual Conference, University of Alberta, March 2024.

 

·       Presentation “A Materialist Approach to the Crisis of Political Polarization,” Critical Social Ontology Conference, University of Saint Louis, March 2024.

 

·       Presentation, “Disability, Representation and Policies: Insights from the Ignite Change Global Convention” Annual University of Alberta International Week, in February 2024.

 

·       Presentation, “Biology and Ideology: What Can Feminist Philosophy of Science Learn from Dialectical Biologists?” Graduate Student Seminar Series, University of Alberta, November, 2023.

 

·       Presentation, “A Case for Transcendental Optimism: Comparing Feminist and Realist Philosophies of Science”, Western Canadian Philosophical Association, University of British Columbia, October 2023.

 

  • Presentation, “Feminist and realist philosophies of science: Helen Longino and Roy Bhaskar”, Annual Philosophy Graduate and Post Graduate Conference (Science and Value), University of Alberta, May 2023.

 

  • Presentation, "Social Ontology: Comparing Roy Bhaskar and Alan Badiou." Critical Social Ontology Conference, University of Saint Louis, March 2023.

 

  • Presentation, “Naturalistic Roots of Morality,” Invited Guest Lecture Series, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Nov 2022.

 

  • Presentation, “Naturalistic Meta-Ethics and Cognitive Science of Morality,” Iran’s National Elites Foundation, Kurdistan, Nov 2022.

 

Publications

·       Saberi, Farid.  "Middle East, Crisis and Workers: A Dialogue with Joseph Choonara," Naghd-e-Eghtesad-e-Siasi, (Critique of Political Economy). Published both in English and Persian . 2021.

 

·       Saberi, Farid. "Reversing Moral Psychology: Normative Perception and Causal-based Categorization (Master’s capstone project). In preparation. 2023.


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