Arash Naraghi
Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Moravian College, PA.
EDUCATION
University of California, Santa Barbara,
PhD, , Philosophy, 2008
Dissertation Title: Moral dilemmas in the Context of Virtue Ethics
(Supervised by Professor Matthew Hanser)
MA, Philosophy, 2003
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
PhD, Pharmacology, 1991
AREA OF SPECIALIZATION
Normative Ethics: Virtue Ethics, and Consequentialism
Applied Ethics: Feminism, Environmental Ethics, Bio-Medical Ethics, Global Ethics
Philosophy of Rights: Theories of Rights, Human Rights.
Philosophy of Religion: The Problem of Evil; Epistemology of Religious Experience (William Alston); Plantinga's Proper Function Account of Warrant and its application to Religious Belief System; Ethics and religion: God's Command Theory
Medieval Philosophy: Ethical Theories in Islam: (1) Theological Ethics: Ethical Rationalism
( Mutazilite School), Ethical Voluntarism (Asharite School); (2) Philosophical Ethics: Aristotelian and Neo- Platonic Tendencies (Al- Farabi, Ibn Sina, Ibn Rushd, with especial focus on the relation between Ibn Miskawayh's Ethical Writings and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics); (3) Mystical Ethics (Sufism): Al- Ghazali, and Rumi.
AREA OF COMPETENCE
Meta-ethics: Moral Realism, Moral Skepticism
Epistemology: The Problem of Skepticism
Modernism: Modernist Movements in Contemporary Islam
PUBLICATIONS
Books (in Persian)
Ressaleh Din-Shenakht: Modeli Dar Fahme Iman-e Ebrahimi (Reason and Faith: A Philosophical Model for Understanding the Theistic Faith), Tarh-e-No Publisher, Iran, 1999.
Selected Articles
“Moral Foundations of the Right to Secession”, Roozonline,13/08/08
“ Ayatollah Khomeini’s Theory of Government: Genesis, and Evolution”, A chapter in the book, Prospects of Democracy in Iran, eds. By Larry Diamond, Mike McFaul, and Abbad Milani, Stanford University Press, forthcoming.
“Approaches to Moderate Islam in Iran”, A project for The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBAR)”, August 2007.
“On the nature of revealed words: A Critique to Mojtahed Shabesstari’s theory on Islamic Revelation”, Madreseh, July 2007, Vol. 6.
“Some Critical Remarks about the Morality of Nuclear Weapons”, Roozonline, April, 12th, 2007.
“John Rawls and the Issue of Human Rights”, Madreseh, January 2007, Vol. 5.
"Divine Hiddenness: Some Remarks about Theology of Absence", Madreseh, September 2006, Vol.4
"Political Legitimacy and Human Rights: A Critical Study of the Moral Standing of Humanitarian Intervention", Madreseh, December 2005, Vol. 2
"Moral Skepticism and Moral Realism in Western and Islamic Philosophy: A Comparative Study", Kherad Nameh, November 2005
"A Critique of Abdul Karim Soroush's Theory of Revelation", Madreseh, July 2005, Vol. 1
"On Abortion", on personal website, October 2004
"The Moral Status of Homosexuality", Personal Website, November 2004
"Rationality and Religious Belief : A New Understanding of the Theory of Fetrah in Shi’at Theology", Naghd-va-Nazar; The Persian Journal for Theological Studies, September 1997
"The Concept of Religious Revivalism in Islam: A Comparative Study of Al-Ghazali and Mohammad Iqbal Lahuri", Kiayn, The Persian Journal for Theological and Philosophical Studies, November, 1996
" A Critical Study of the Master-Disciple relationship in Islamic Mysticism", Kiayn, The Persian Journal for Theological and Philosophical Studies, December, 1992
"Alvin Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism", Personal Website, Fall 2003.
TRANSLATIONS (into Persian)
Books
Reason and Religious Belief: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion. Michael Peterson, William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach, David Basinger, Oxford University Press, 1998. (Iranian Publisher: Tehrh-e no, First Published in 1998, Reprinted 1999, 2002, 2005)
An Introduction to Epistemology. Charles Landesman, Blackwell Publishing, 1997. (Forthcoming)
Articles
Alvin Plantinga, "Pluralism: A Defense of Religious Exclusivism", from The Rationality of Belief and Plurality of Faith: Essay in Honor of William P. Alston, Thomas D. Senor (Editor), Cornell University Press, 1955.
Anthony Flew, Basil Mitchel, R.M. Hare, "Theology and Falsification", from New Essays in Philosophical Theology, Anthony Flew and Alasdair MacIntyre (editors), Macmillan, 1973
Robert C. Solomon, "The Virtue of (Erotic) Love", from Ethical Theory: Character and Virtue, -Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 13, pp.12-31.
Robert Nozick, "Love's Bond", from The Examined Life, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.
Elizabeth Rapaport, "On the Future of Love: Rousseau and the Radical Feminists", Philosophical Forum 5:1-2 (Fall-Winter), 1973.
UNDERTAKING PROJECT
An Introduction to Philosophy of Rights.
