Arash Abizadeh (Persian: آرش ابی زاده) is an Iranian-Canadian philosopher, R.B. Angus Professor of Political Science, and Associate Member of the Department of Philosophy at McGill University. He is known for his expertise on democratic theory, political and social power, migration and border control, and Thomas Hobbes.[2][3][4][5] He is a recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship (1994).
Arash Abizadeh | |
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| Born | |
| Education | University of Winnipeg (BA) University of Oxford (MPhil) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Institutions | McGill University |
| Thesis | Rhetoric, the Passions, and Difference in Discursive Democracy (2001) |
| Doctoral advisor | Seyla Benhabib |
Main interests | Political philosophy, early modern philosophy |
| Website | http://abizadeh.wixsite.com/arash |
As a democratic theorist he is known for his advocacy of sortition, and has proposed the adoption of random selection to fill seats in the Senate of Canada.[6]
Books
edit- Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics, Cambridge University Press, 2018, ISBN 1108417299
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Grieve, Pete. "Guest Lecturer Born in Iran Cancels After Immigration Executive Order". Chicago Maroon.
- ^ "Online Colloquium (1): Introduction to Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics". European Hobbes Society. 14 December 2018.
- ^ "Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics". Centre de recherche en éthique (in French). 17 August 2018.
- ^ "Online Colloquium (2): Field on Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics". European Hobbes Society. 21 December 2018. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
- ^ "Arash Abizadeh". Google Scholar Citations. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
- ^ Abizadeh, Arash. "Opinion: Let's replace Canada's Senate with a randomly selected citizen assembly". Retrieved 10 June 2024.
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