Curriculum Vita
saemi.amir AT gmail.com
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey - currently
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, The College of New Jersey, New Jersey - currently
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Rowan University, New Jersey (2019-2020)
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Temple University (2019)
Fellow Researcher, Abrahamic Reflections On Science and Religion, Kaufman Interfaith Institute, 2016-2019
Visiting Scholar, University of Pittsburgh, Summer 2011
Lecturer, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2012-2013
Researcher, France Telecom, Paris, France, 2004-2007
University of California, Santa Barbara
PhD, Philosophy, March 2013
Dissertation: On the Nature of Practical Reasons
University of California, Santa
MA and C. Phil, Philosophy, March 2010
University of Limoges, Limoges, France (CNRS 6172, French National Scientific Research Center)
PhD, Electronics and Telecommunications, September 2007
Isfahan University of Technology, Iran
MSc, Electrical Engineering, September 2004
Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Iran
BSc, Electrical Engineering, June 2002
Metaethics, Normative Ethics, Philosophy of Action, Islamic Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind
PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming book, Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond: A New Problem of Evil, Oxford University Press
(2021) Revelation, Moral Skepticism, and the Mu'tazilites, Res Philosophica 98 (2): 283-305. 2021.
(2021) "The problem of arbitrary requirements: an abrahamic perspective" International Journal for Philosophy of Religion: 89(3), 221-242 with Sara Aronowitz and Marilie Coetsee
(2021), "On Korsgaard's Argument for the Moral Law", Inquiry, 64 (8): 773-787. 2021
(2020) "The Problem of Salvific Luck in Islamic Theology", The Journal of Analytic Theology 8 (1) 120:130 with Scott Davison
(2019) "The Doctrine of Double Effect and the Intention Principle", Analysis 79(1): 91-99.
(2018) "The Morally difficult notion of heaven: A critique of the Faith-Based Ethics of Aquinas and Avicenna,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 92(3): 429-444
(2018) "Targeting Human Shields," Philosophical Quarterly 68(271): 328- 348; with Philip Atkins
(2017) "Self-Knowledge and the Guise of the Good," Analytic Philosophy 58(2): 272-281
(2016) Review of Action Reconceptualized: Human Agency and Its Sources by David Chan, Notre Dame Philosophical Review, November 2016 (https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/action-reconceptualized-human-agency-and-its-source/)
(2016) "The Form of Practical Knowledge and Implicit Cognition: A Critique of Kantian Constitutivism," Social Theory and Practice 42(4): 733-747
(2015) "Aiming at the Good," Canadian Journal of Philosophy 45 (2): 197-219
(2014) “On Laird's "Value and Obligation,"” Ethics 125 (1): 235-237
(2014) “The Guise of the Good and the Problem of Over-Intellectualism,” Journal of Value Inquiry 48(3): 489-501
(2009) “Intention and Permissibility,” Ethical Perspectives 16(1):81-101
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Ethics and Practical Reason, Rutgers (New Brunswick), Spring 2020
Introduction to Ethics, Rutgers (New Brunswick), Spring 2020
Introduction to Philosophy, Rutgers (New Brunswick),
Spring 2019 Islamic Philosophy, Rutgers (New Brunswick), Spring, 2019
Philosophy of Science (Rowan University), Spring 2019, 2020
Introduction to Philosophy (Rowan University), Fall 2018
Introduction to Ethics (Rowan University), Fall 2018
Philosophy and Society (Rowan University), Fall 2018
Contemporary Ethical Theories (Temple University), Fall 2018
Ethics (graduate course), IPM, Spring 2013, Spring 2018
Philosophy of Mind (graduate course), IPM, Fall 2013, Fall 2017
Kantian Ethics (graduate course) Spring 2015, Fall 2016, Spring 2016
Philosophy of Action (graduate course), IPM, Spring 2014
Morality and Religion (graduate course) (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies), Spring 2015
Topics in Moral Philosophy (graduate course), Qom University, Fall 2013, Fall 2017
Intro to Logic, Tehran University, 2013
Introduction to Analytic Philosophy (University of Tehran), Spring 2015
Epistemology, UCSB, Summer 2012
Introduction to Ethics, UCSB, Spring 2012
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS IN ELETRICAL ENGINEERING
(2007) “Synchronization Algorithms for MIMO OFDMA Systems,” IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications 6 (12): 4441-4451; with Jean-Pierre Cances and Vahid Meghdadi
(2008) “New List Sphere Decoding (LSD) and Iterative Synchronization Algorithms for MIMO-OFDM Detection With LDPC FEC,”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 57(6): 3510-3524, with A. Kora, Jean-Pierre Cances, and Vahid Meghdadi
(2008) “Joint ML Time-Frequency Synchronization and Channel Estimation Algorithm for MIMO-OFDM Systems,” IET Circuit Devices and Systems 2(1): 103-111; with Vahid Meghdadi, Jean-Pierre Cances, and Mohammad Reza Zahabi
(2008) “Iterative (Turbo) Expectation-Maximisation-Based Time and Frequency Synchronisation for Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing Systems,” IET Communications 2(7): 982-993; with Vahid Meghdadi, Jean-Pierre Cances, and Mohammad Reza Zahabi
(2007) “Mixed Analog and Digital Matched Filter Design for High Rate WLAN,” IEE GLOBECOME 2007 – IEE Global Telecommunications Conference 2007: 310 – 314; with Vahid Meghdadi, Jean-Pierre Cances, and Mohammad Reza Zahabi