Dr Mohsen Moghri

Department of Philosophy
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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Department of Philosophy
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Mohsen Moghri is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, and a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna. He joined The Global Philosophy of Religion Project directed by Professor Yujin Nagasawa in September 2022, and his current research focus is on the Axiological Explanation and Religious Naturalism.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Philosophy of Science (Sharif University of Technology, 2020)
  • MA in History and Philosophy of Science (Sharif University of Technology, 2015)
  • BA in Industrial Engineering (Amirkabir University of Technology, 2012)

Research

Mohsen Moghri's doctoral research focused on Leibniz's question, 'Why is there anything at all?', and resulted in a number of interdisciplinary publications, including an article in Philosophia ('Deriving Actuality from Possibility'). He is currently working on a monograph on how Value grounds Nature as well as on the contemporary relevance of Religious Naturalism as a member of The Global Philosophy of Religion Project. Mohsen is also a Visiting Researcher at the University of Vienna (hosted by Professor Benjamin Schnieder) in collaboration with the Phlox research group working on Grounding and Metaphysical Explanation. Mohsen's areas of research interests are Metaphysics, analytic philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, and the relationship between science and religion.

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