Seyed Mousavian, PhD

About

Seyed N. Mousavian joined the philosophy department Sep 2021, after completing a six-year research project (Representation and Reality: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Aristotelian Tradition) at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and holding the associate professorship of philosophy at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran. He obtained his PhD in analytic philosophy from the University of Alberta, Canada and received traditional Islamic education (including Islamic Legal Theory, Theology (Kalām), and Philosophy) at Marwī Seminary, Tehran. He specializes in philosophy of language, metaphysics, and medieval Islamic/Arabic philosophy. Dr. Mousavian has published in Mind and Language, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy, Synthese, Thought, and History and Philosophy of Logic, among other places.

Degrees

PhD, Philosophy (University of Alberta)

MA, Philosophy (Logic) (TMU, Tehran)

B.Sc., Electrical Engineering (University of Tehran)

Research Interests

Philosophy of language, metaphysics, and medieval Islamic/Arabic philosophy.

Selected Publications

Mousavian, Seyed N. (2022). “Avicenna on the Semantics of Maʿnā” In Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist and Juhana Toivanen (eds.), Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition. Volume Three: Concept Formation. Philosophia Antiqua: A Series of Studies on Ancient Philosophy. Brill, Boston. Vol 163: 95-140.

Mousavian, Seyed N. (2022). “The Varieties of Gappy Propositions.” In Chris Tillman (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Propositions. Routledge, 437-459.

Mousavian, Seyed N. (2021). “Is Avicenna an Empiricist?” In Shahid Rahman, et al. (eds.) Mathematics, Logic, and their Philosophies. Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science Series. Dordrecht: Springer, 443-474.

Mousavian, Seyed N. and Mohammad Ardeshir. (2018). “Avicenna on the Primary Propositions.” History and Philosophy of Logic. Vol 39, No. 3: 201-231.

Mousavian, Seyed N. and Mohammad Saleh Zarepour. (2018). “Concept Originalism, Reference-Shift and Belief Reports.” Synthese. Vol. 195, No. 1: 269–285.

Mousavian, Seyed N. and Seyed Hasan Saadat Mostafavi. (2017). “Avicenna on the Origination of the Human Soul.” Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy. Vol. 5: 41-86.

Mousavian, Seyed N. (2017). “Ontological Trivialism? How to Meinong a Carnap-Quine.” Grazer Philosophische Studien. Vol. 94, No. 1: 38-68.

Mousavian, Seyed N. (2015). “Pragmatics of No Reference.” Mind and Language. Vol. 30, No. 1: 95-116.

Mousavian, Seyed N. (2014). “Did Suhrawardi Believe in Innate Ideas as A Priori Concepts? A Note.” Philosophy East and West. Vol. 64, No. 2: 473–480.

Mousavian, Seyed N. (2011). “Gappy Propositions?” Canadian Journal of Philosophy. Vol. 41, No. 1: 125-158.

Mousavian, Seyed N. (2010). “Neo-Meinongian Neo-Russellians.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. Vol. 91, No. 2: 229–259.