Areas of Expertise

Philosophy of Social Sciences
Social and Political Philosophy
Applied Ethics
Philosophy of Race and Gender

How to pronounce my name:

Sahar Heydari Fard

Prof. Heydari Fard personal website and PhilPeople page

My work lies at the intersection of social and behavioral sciences, social and political philosophy, and ethics. Much of my research is concerned with examining the possibility of sustainable change in complex and dynamic social systems and the moral implications of such a possibility. Before OSU, I taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.

Selected Publications:

Heydari Fard, S. (forthcoming)“Strategic Injustice, Dynamic Network Formation, and Social Movements,” Synthese.

Heydari Fard, S. (2022) Complexity Theory in the Lived Experience of a Seasoned Activist, Review of Shut It Down, by Lisa Fithian for The Acorn: Philosophical Studies in Pacifism and Nonviolence.

Heydari Fard, S. (2018). Decision-Theoretic Consequentialism and The Desire-Luck Problem. Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics, 5 (1), 71.