Arash Abizadeh
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Arash Abizadeh (Persian: آرش ابی زاده) FRSC 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 | |
| Education | University of Winnipeg (BA) University of Oxford (MPhil) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Thesis | Rhetoric, the Passions, and Difference in Discursive Democracy (2001) |
| Doctoral advisor | Seyla Benhabib |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Institutions | McGill University |
| 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
- Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics, Cambridge University Press, 2018, ISBN 1108417299
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