Seyed N. Mousavian, PhD - on leave Fall 2024

Assistant Professor

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

Education

PhD, Philosophy (University of Alberta)

MA, Philosophy (Logic) (TMU, Tehran)

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

Research Interests

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

Publications/Research Listings

Mousavian, Seyed N. (2023). “Avicenna on the Impossibilia: The Letter on the Soul Revisited.” Arabic Sciences and Philosophy. Vol. 33: 191-241.

Mousavian, Seyed N., et al. (2023). "Umar Khayyam," The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/umar-khayyam/>.

Mousavian, Seyed N. (2022). “Avicenna on the Semantics of Maʿnā,” In Christina Thörnqvist and Juhana Toivanen (eds.), Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition, , Vol. 3, Brill, Boston. Vol 163: 95-140.

Mousavian, Seyed N. (2022). “Avicenna on Talking about Nothing,” In Christina Thörnqvist and Juhana Toivanen (eds.), Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition, , Vol. 3, Brill, Boston. Vol 163: 141-177.

Mousavian, Seyed N. (2022). “The Varieties of Gappy Propositions.” In Chris Tillman and Adam Murray (eds.), 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. Dordrecht: Springer, 443-474.

Mousavian, Seyed N. (2020). “Plenitudinous Russellianism, ‘that’-Clauses and the Principle of Substitutivity.” Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 1-24.

Mousavian, Seyed N. and Jakob L. Fink. (2020). “The Internal Senses in Context.” In Seyed N. Mousavian and Jakob L. Fink (eds.), The Internal Senses in the Aristotelian Tradition. Chapter 1. Dordrecht: Springer, 1-14.

Mousavian, Seyed N. and Jakob L. Fink (eds.). (2020). The Internal Senses in the Aristotelian Tradition. Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind Series. Dordrecht: Springer.

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. (2015). “Do Apparently Empty Names Help Millianism Prevail Against Widescopism? A Note.” Analytic Philosophy. Vol. 56, No. 3: 253-265.

Mousavian, Seyed N. (2014). “Suhrawardi on Innateness: A Reply to John Walbridge.” Philosophy East and West. Vol. 64, No. 2: 486–501.

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. (2014). “Empty Names and Pragmatic Millianism.” Thought: A Journal of Philosophy. Vol. 3, No. 1: 49-58.

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.