Farhad Alavi

PhD Philosophy
- Philosophy Department
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: farhad.alavi@ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Address
- Street
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40 George Square
- City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JX
Postgraduate teaching
Farhad Alavi has been teaching tutorials at the University of Edinburgh in the following courses:
Introduction to History of Philosophy I: Plato, Aristotle, Avicenna.
Introduction to History of Philosophy II: Descartes, Berkeley, Cavendish, and non-western traditions.
Philosophy of Science.
Mind, matter and language.
Current research interests
Knowledge and demonstrability in Hume: His multi-layered account of modality in arithmetic and geometry.Past research interests
Kant's utilization of mathematics in the Transcendental Philosophy, especially how mathematics is at play in his theory of schematism.Project activity
Mathematics and demonstrative reasoning in Hume's philosophy.
Current project grants
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Science Postgraduate PhD Scholarship
Alavi, F. (2024). On Kant’s Schema of Reality. Kant Yearbook, 16(1), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1515/kantyb-2024-0001
Alavi, F. (2020), Reading Kant’s doctrine of schematism algebraically. Philos Forum, 51: 315-329. https://doi.org/10.1111/phil.12261