Mousa Mohammadian is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Humanities and Languages division of the School of Arts and Sciences. Before joining Ahmedabad University, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values at the University of Notre Dame. He received his PhD in History and Philosophy of Science (Philosophy of Science Track) from the University of Notre Dame, and his MA in philosophy from Shahid Beheshti University. His earlier education includes a bachelor’s degree in Mining Engineering from the Isfahan University of Technology.

Areas of Specialization

• Philosophy of science (and its history)
• Metaphysics
• Islamic philosophy 

Areas of Competence

• Science and values
• Philosophy of Psychology
• Logic
   

Journal Articles

• Forthcoming. “An Armstrongian Defense of Dispositional Monist Accounts of Laws of Nature.” European Journal for Philosophy of Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-022-00481-x.
• 2022. “Virtues of ‘Values’ and ‘Virtues’: On Theoretical Virtues and the Aim of Science.” Metascience 31 (3): 297–302. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-022-00781-1.
• 2021. “Abduction − the Context of Discovery + Underdetermination = Inference to the Best Explanation.” Synthese 198 (5): 4205–28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02337-z.
• 2021. “If Consciousness Causes Collapse, the Zombie Argument Fails.” Synthese 199 (1): 1599–1615. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02828-4.
• 2021. “Theoretical Virtues and Theorizing in Physics: Against the Instrumentalist View of Simplicity.” Synthese 199 (1): 4819–28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-03004-4.
• 2019. “Beyond the Instinct-Inference Dichotomy: A Unified Interpretation of Peirce’s Theory of Abduction.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy 55 (2): 138–60. https://doi.org/10.2979/trancharpeirsoc.55.2.03.

Book Reviews

• Forthcoming. “Review of The Art of Abduction, by Igor Douven.” The Philosophical Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqac079.

Avicenna’s Flying Man in Einstein’s Elevator (with F. Fazeli)

• 2022. International Conference on Philosophical Anthropology (IBSIC) – Iranian Institute of Philosophy, Tehran, Iran
• 2021. APA Pacific Division – Portland
• 2020. APA Pacific Division – San Francisco (Cancelled)
• 2019. Central States Philosophical Association – Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis
• 2019. Philosophy in the Abrahamic Traditions, Neo-Platonism & Aristotelianism in Early Arabic Philosophy – Marquette University, Milwaukee

Theoretical Virtue in Science and Metaphysics: A Proposal for Naturalized Metaphysics

• 2022. The International Conference on Naturalism and Its Challenges (ICNIC) – Iranian Institute of Philosophy, Science Studies Department, Tehran, Iran

An Armstrongian Defense of Dispositional Monist Accounts of Laws

• 2022. The Fourth International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science – Technische Universität Berlin
• 2021. Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science – University of Alberta
• 2021. APA Eastern Division – New York City

Theoretical Virtues and the Epistemic Aims of Science

• 2022. The Ninth Triennial Conference of the Société de Philosophie Analytique (SoPhA), University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
• 2021. Iranian Institute of Philosophy, Science Studies Department – Tehran, Iran (invited)

Explanatory Consistency and Natural Selection: On Nagasawa’s Existential Problem of Systemic Evil

• 2021. The Global Philosophy of Religion Project Online Conference – University of Birmingham
• 2021. Iranian Association for Philosophy of Religion, Tehran, Iran (invited)

Beyond the Insight-Inference Dichotomy: A Unified Interpretation of Peirce’s Theory of Abduction

• 2019. Charles S. Peirce Society Annual Meeting, APA Eastern Division, New York (invited)
• 2017. Eighth Annual Midwest Graduate Research Symposium – University of Toledo, Toledo (Winner of the best oral presentation of the symposium)

Abduction − the Context of Discovery + Underdetermination = Inference to the Best Explanation

• 2018. PSA 2018: The 26th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Seattle
• 2018. Indiana University History and Philosophy of Science & Medicine Graduate Student Conference – Bloomington

From Peirce’s Abduction to Lipton’s Inference to the Best Explanation: How Two Historical Developments Fill the Gap

• 2017. Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy – Birmingham, Alabama
• 2016. HOPOS: The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science – Minneapolis

Cognitive Values Are a ‘Collective Pool’: On Douglas’ Theory of Cognitive Values

• 2015. Socially Relevant Philosophy of/in Science and Engineering, Second Annual Meeting – Michigan State University, Detroit Center

Ahmedabad University

Academic year 2022-2023

• Foundation Seminar (on Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions)
• Introduction to Islamic Philosophy
• Think about It! A First Course in Philosophy

Academic year 2021-2022

• Introduction to Islamic Philosophy
• Philosophy of Science
• Philosophy of Psychology

University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

• Introduction to Philosophy
• Philosophy of Science
• Death and Dying
• Science, Technology, and Society