Faculty at California State University, San Bernardino (Since Fall 2007)

EDUCATION

University of California, Santa Barbara,
PhD, , Philosophy, 2008
Dissertation Title: Moral dilemmas in the Context of Virtue Ethics
(Supervised by Professor Matthew Hanser)
MA, Philosophy, 2003

University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
PhD, Pharmacology, 1991
 

AREA OF SPECIALIZATION

• Normative Ethics: Virtue Ethics, and Consequentialism
   
• Applied Ethics: Feminism, Environmental Ethics, Bio-Medical Ethics, Global Ethics
• Philosophy of Rights: Theories of Rights, Human Rights.
   
• Philosophy of Religion: The Problem of Evil; Epistemology of Religious Experience (William Alston); Plantinga's Proper Function Account of Warrant and its application to Religious Belief System; Ethics and religion: God's Command Theory
   
• Medieval Philosophy:  Ethical Theories in Islam: (1) Theological Ethics: Ethical Rationalism
  ( Mutazilite School), Ethical Voluntarism (Asharite School); (2) Philosophical Ethics: Aristotelian and Neo- Platonic Tendencies (Al- Farabi, Ibn Sina, Ibn Rushd, with especial focus on the relation between Ibn Miskawayh's Ethical Writings and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics); (3) Mystical Ethics (Sufism): Al- Ghazali, and Rumi.
  
   

AREA OF COMPETENCE

• Meta-ethics: Moral Realism, Moral Skepticism
   
• Epistemology: The Problem of Skepticism
   
• Modernism: Modernist Movements in Contemporary Islam
   

PUBLICATIONS

Books (in Persian)

• Ressaleh Din-Shenakht: Modeli Dar Fahme Iman-e Ebrahimi (Reason and Faith: A Philosophical Model for Understanding the Theistic Faith), Tarh-e-No Publisher, Iran, 1999.

Selected Articles

• “Moral Foundations of the Right to Secession”, Roozonline,13/08/08
   
• “ Ayatollah Khomeini’s Theory of Government: Genesis, and Evolution”,  A chapter in the book, Prospects of Democracy in Iran, eds. By Larry Diamond, Mike McFaul, and Abbad Milani, Stanford University Press, forthcoming.
   
• “Approaches to Moderate Islam in Iran”, A project for The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBAR)”, August 2007.
   
• “On the nature of revealed words: A Critique to Mojtahed Shabesstari’s theory on Islamic Revelation”, Madreseh, July 2007, Vol. 6.
   
• “Some Critical Remarks about the Morality of Nuclear Weapons”, Roozonline, April, 12th, 2007.
   
• “John Rawls and the Issue of Human Rights”, Madreseh, January 2007, Vol. 5.
   
• "Divine Hiddenness: Some Remarks about Theology of Absence", Madreseh, September 2006, Vol.4
   
• "Political Legitimacy and Human Rights: A Critical Study of the Moral Standing of Humanitarian Intervention", Madreseh, December 2005, Vol. 2
   
• "Moral Skepticism and Moral Realism in Western and Islamic Philosophy: A Comparative Study", Kherad Nameh, November 2005
   
• "A Critique of Abdul Karim Soroush's Theory of Revelation", Madreseh, July 2005, Vol. 1
   
• "On Abortion", on personal website, October 2004
   
• "The Moral Status of Homosexuality", Personal Website, November 2004
   
• "Rationality and Religious Belief : A New Understanding of the Theory of Fetrah in Shi’at Theology", Naghd-va-Nazar; The Persian Journal for Theological Studies, September 1997
   
• "The Concept of Religious Revivalism in Islam: A Comparative Study of Al-Ghazali and Mohammad Iqbal Lahuri", Kiayn, The Persian Journal for Theological and Philosophical Studies, November, 1996
   
• " A Critical Study of the Master-Disciple relationship in Islamic Mysticism", Kiayn, The Persian Journal for Theological and Philosophical Studies, December, 1992
   
• "Alvin Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism", Personal Website, Fall 2003.
   

TRANSLATIONS (into Persian)

Books

• Reason and Religious Belief: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion. Michael Peterson, William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach, David Basinger, Oxford University Press, 1998. (Iranian Publisher: Tehrh-e no, First Published in 1998, Reprinted 1999, 2002, 2005)
   
• An Introduction to Epistemology. Charles Landesman, Blackwell Publishing, 1997. (Forthcoming)
  Articles
   
• Alvin Plantinga, "Pluralism: A Defense of Religious Exclusivism", from The Rationality of Belief and Plurality of Faith: Essay in Honor of William P. Alston, Thomas D. Senor (Editor), Cornell University Press, 1955.
   
• Anthony Flew, Basil Mitchel, R.M. Hare, "Theology and Falsification", from New Essays in Philosophical Theology, Anthony Flew and Alasdair MacIntyre (editors), Macmillan, 1973
   
• Robert C. Solomon, "The Virtue of (Erotic) Love", from Ethical Theory: Character and Virtue, -Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 13, pp.12-31.
   
• Robert Nozick, "Love's Bond", from The Examined Life, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.
   
• Elizabeth Rapaport, "On the Future of Love: Rousseau and the Radical Feminists", Philosophical Forum 5:1-2 (Fall-Winter), 1973.
   

UNDERTAKING  PROJECT

An Introduction to Philosophy of Rights.