Rate My Professor Mohammad Azadpur

Azadpur specializes in Medieval Islamic Philosophy, Analytic Pragmatism and Neo-Empiricism in the post-Sellarsian tradition, and Ethics and Self-Knowledge. His research brings analytic neo-Hegelians such as Wilfrid Sellars and John McDowell into dialogue with Islamic Peripatetics, particularly Avicenna, to rethink foundationalism and original intentionality. He explores the primacy of ethics in philosophical activity from ancient Greek philosophy to twentieth-century figures including Martin Heidegger, Pierre Hadot, and Michel Foucault. In Middle East and Islamic Studies contexts, he teaches courses on Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism and Islamic Political Philosophy. Key publications include Analytic Philosophy and Avicenna: Knowing the Unknown (Routledge, 2020) and Reason Unbound: On Spiritual Practice in Islamic Peripatetic Philosophy (SUNY Press, 2011). Other notable works are 'Avicenna on Education in Philosophy and Art,' co-authored with Anita Silvers (Arts Education Policy Review, 2005); 'On the Philosophical Shi‘ism of Nasir Ad-Din Tusi' (Maghreb Review, 2018); 'Unveiling the Hidden: On the Meditations of Descartes and Ghazzali' (2003); and 'The Sublime Visions of Philosophy: Fundamental Ontology and the Imaginal World' (2006). Azadpur's scholarship bridges Persian Islamic philosophical traditions with contemporary analytic and phenomenological trends. His awards include the CSU Summer Stipend Award (San Francisco State University, 2004), CRCL Postdoctoral Fellowship (Johns Hopkins University, 2001-2002), Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship (Johns Hopkins University, 1999-2001), DuPont Dissertation Fellowship (University of Virginia, 1997-1998), and President's Fellowship (University of Virginia, 1994-1997).