MOHAMMAD AZADPUR
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132
415-338-3135
E-MAIL: azad at sfsu.edu
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
San Francisco State University:
· Associate Professor of Philosophy, 2008-.
· Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 2003-08.
Johns Hopkins University:
· CRCL Postdoctoral Fellow, 2001-02.
· Mellon Scholar, 1999-2001.
EDUCATION:
- Ph.D., University of Virginia (1999).
- M.A., University of Pittsburgh (1993).
- B.A., Bucknell University (1986).
SPECIALIZATION:
- Islamic Philosophy, Ethics, Metaphysics and Epistemology (Analytic Hegelians), Early Heidegger, Later Foucault.
LANGUAGES:
- Fluent in Persian & English. Reading knowledge of ancient Greek, Arabic, & German.
PUBLICATIONS:
PUBLISHED:
- Reason Unbound: On Spiritual Practice in Islamic Peripatetic Philosophy. SUNY Press, 2011.
- "Charity and the Good Life: On Islamic Prophetic Ethics," Crisis, Call, and Leadership in the Abrahamic Traditions, Palgrave, 2009.
- "Hegel and the Divinity of Light in Zoroastrianism and Islamic Phenomenology." The Classical Bulletin, 83.2 , 2007.
- "Is 'Islamic' Philosophy Islamic?" Voices of Islam, vol. 5, Praeger, 2007.
- "The Sublime Visions of Philosophy: Fundamental Ontology and the Imaginal World." Islamic
Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology on the Perennial Issue of Microcosm and Macrocosm, Springer, July 2006.
-Translated (in part) into Persian by Rahim Qassemian for Hamshahry, 2007.
- "Islam, Liberalism, and Democracy." Journal of Scriptural Reasoning 21 (2006).
- "Avicenna on Education in Philosophy and Art." Co-authored with Anita Silvers. Arts Education Policy Review,
107:2: November/December 2005.
- "Interpreting Political Violence in Islamic Philosophy." Polylog: Forum for Intercultural Philosophy 5 (2004).
-Translated into German by Michael Schemmerling for Polylog.
-Translated into Spanish by Mery Castillo-Amigo for Polylog.
-Translated into Persian by Manouchehr Dinparast for Kheradnameh, No. 15, June 2007.
- "Unveiling the Hidden: On the Meditations of Descartes & al-Ghazali." The Passions of the Soul: A
Dialogue Between Phenomenology and Islamic Philosophy, Kluwer, 2003.
- "Review of Muhsin Mahdi's Alfarabi and the Foundation of Islamic Political Philosophy." Speculum, April 2003.
- "Hegel on Iran." Encyclopedia Iranica, 2003.
- "Who Is Nietzsche's Zarathustra? Philosophy, Morality, & the Persians." New Nietzsche Studies, 3:1/2: Winter 1999.
FORTHCOMING:
- "Nasir Khusraw and the Poetics of Enlightenment." Pearls of Persia: The Philosophical Poetry of Nasir-i Khusraw ,
I. B. Taurus, 2012.
DISSERTATION:
- Experience Conceptualized: Between the Myth of the Given & Coherentism.
Director: Cora Diamond
SERVICE:
SFSU:
- College of Humanities Representative to the Academic Senate 2010-2013.
- Member of Academic Senate's Curriculum Review and Approval Committee, since Fall 2010.
- Chair of Philosophy Department’s Retention, Tenure, and Promotion (RTP) Committee, since Fall 2008.
- Coordinator of the Philosophy and Religion Program, since Fall 2005
-Religious Studies Cluster Coordinator.
-Director of Religious Studies Minor.
- Member of the Philosophy Department's Hiring Committee, since Fall 2004.
- Advisor for Majors in Philosophy & Religion, since Spring 2004.
- SFSU Advisor for the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics, since Spring 2004.
- Member of Faculty in Middle East and Islamic Studies (MEIS) at SFSU, since Fall 2003.
- SFSU Faculty Expert, since Fall 2003.
- Philosophy and Philosophy & Religion Programs Review Committee Member, 2006-07.
- Advisor for Majors in Philosophy, Spring 2004-Summer 2007.
- Assistant Chair of the Philosophy Department, July 2006-August 2007.
- Elected Member of Dean Sherwin's Administrative Review Committee, Spring 2007.
- Chair of Arab-Islamic Search Committee, College of Ethnic Studies, Spring 2006.
OTHER:
- Member of American Philosophical Association's (APA) Programming Committee,
2006-08.
- Founding member and participant in the interfaith Scriptural Reasoning Group, Sponsored by the Princeton
Theological Seminary,
December and May 2003-2006.
- Affiliated with the Iranian Institute of Philosophy,
November-December 2002, January 2003, June 2007.
