MY CV (Résumé)

 

Farid saberi   +989120441273 Faridsaberi128@gmail.com · faridsaberi128.blogspot.com

OBJECTIVE. Seeking to use philosophical reasoning as one of the most valuable and complicated tools of the human mind in the face of the social and cultural challenges of the contemporary times with an interdisciplinary approach.

 

Education

January 2018- august 2021 bachelor of philosophy, university of Teheran (ranked the first in humanities in Iran) Overall GPA 3.9371. ranked in the top 5 percent in my graduate class.

September 2017- January 2018 a minor term in law, university of Teheran Passed 16 units (8 courses) in the law department with an overall GPA of 3.8 ranked in the top 15 percent of my class.

Skills

·         Translating classic and professional philosophical papers and works from English and Arabic into Persian. ·         Teaching logic and philosophy for secondary and undergraduate students.

·         Experienced in supervising in several reading circles of philosophical and economic books. ·         Chief-editing a student journal about philosophy and social theory officially based in the university of Teheran. ·         Language skill: IELTS band….

 

AWARDS AND HONOURS

·         Awarded scholarship for obtaining first grade on a regional scale and sixth grade in national scale in 2017 general university entrance exam held nationwide every year in Iran. 

·         Ranked top 5 percent in my graduation class.

·         Member and winner of financial aid of Iran’s National Elites Foundation (INEF). 

 

RESEARCH INTERSET

·         Philosophy and methodology of social sciences

·         Philosophy of science

·         Political philosophy

·         Critical realism and Roy Bhaskar

·         Philosophy of mind and biology (Generative linguistics and cognitive sciences) 

·         Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and Ethics

·         Political economy (with a focus on Marxian tradition)

 

Publications

·         Saberi, Farid. “Social Ontology: Roy Bhaskar and Alan Badiou”. Journal of critical realism, submitted.

·       Saberi, Farid. "Materialist model of the political compass". Socialism and Democracy, revisioned (under review).

·         Saberi, Farid. "Middle East, crisis and workers: A dialogue with Joseph Choonara". peer-reviewed online journal of Naghd-e-Eghtesad-e-Siasi, (Critique of Political Economy Website) in both English and Persian versions. 

·         Saberi, Farid. “Naturalistic principles of justice and mental faculty of moral cognition: Bhaskar's moral realism and contemporary cognitive sciences”. Journal of critical realism. In preparation.

·          Saberi, Farid. “Reification and social being: late György Lukács realist turn”. Journal of critical realism. In preparation. 

  Saberi, Farid. “Development of monopoly capitalism in contemporary Iran”. Historical materialism. In perp.

Academic assignments and projects 

 

·         "Concept of time in Edmund Husserl’s philosophy". Academic Paper for course ‘metaphysics of time (Psychology 2)’ given by Dr. Ahamad Rajabi. Scored A+.

·         "Comparing teleological explanation in Aristotle’s Physics and Kant’s Critique of Judgment".  Academic paper for course ‘general introduction to western metaphysics (Metaphysics in West)’ given by Dr Mostafa Zali. Scored A+.

·         “Review of Descartes’s Meditations on first philosophy and Discourse on Method”. Academic paper for course ‘history of philosophy from Bacon to Hume’ given by Dr Mohammad Taghi Tabatabaie. Scored A+

·         “The problem of the relationship between matter and form in contemporary Islamic philosophy”. Academic paper for course ‘Islamic philosophy 2’ given by Dr Mostafa Zali. Scored A+.

·         “review of Marx’s notion of historical development in part two of German Ideology”. Academic paper for course ‘philosophy of history’ given by Dr Hussain Mesbahian. Scored A+.

 

Experience

•  Passing online course of critical thinking with Dr Stephen Law

•          Chief-editing and writing in a student journal officially based in the University of Teheran named Medusa from February 2019 to August 2021 (five issues and several independent papers and translations). Here is the link to the English version of the blog of the medusa journal: click here. Most of my writings and can be found there.
•          Translation of following papers or book chapters from English into Persian for official journals in the university of Teheran or popular websites in the Iranian intellectual atmosphere (click on highlighted texts to go to links of the publications):

1.        “Conceptof essence” by Herbert Marcuse published in the first issue of Medusa, February 2019.

2.        ‘Philosophyand Critical theory’ by Hebert Marcuse published on Problematica website.

3.        ‘Makingsense of imperialism’ by Alex Callinicos published in the second issue of Medusa, May 2019.

4.        ‘MarxistAristotelianism and Aristotelian Marxism’ by Ruth Groff published in the third issue of Medusa, March 2020.

5.        ‘Neoliberalorder begins to crack’ by Alex Callinicos published in the 17^th issue of ‘Serehe’ official publication organ of students’ scientific association of sociology in the university of Teheran.

6.        Music and class in Russia 1920s by Mark Able published in Medusa

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