Amirhossein Khodaparast

Amirhossein Khodaparast, born in 1984, is a researcher in moral philosophy and a faculty member at the Iranian Institute of Philosophy. He received his BA in Philosophy in 2006 and his MA in Philosophy in 2009 from the University of Tehran, and earned his PhD in Philosophy in 2014 from the Iranian Institute of Philosophy. His doctoral dissertation, titled "The Evolution of the Ethics of Religious Belief in Interaction with Zagzebski's Virtue Epistemology," reflects his primary interest in the intersection of the philosophy of religion, virtue epistemology, and the ethics of belief.

Khodaparast works in the fields of moral philosophy, epistemology, the philosophy of religion, and intellectual virtue. In journal article databases, he is listed as an assistant professor in the Department of Western Philosophy at the Iranian Institute of Philosophy, and his articles on the ethics of belief, intellectual virtue, intellectual autonomy, the moral argument against the existence of God, and virtue epistemology have been recorded.

He is one of the serious translators and promoters of the new literature on moral philosophy and virtue epistemology in Persian. His translations of works by Linda Zagzebski, Heather Battaly, John Nixon, and other contemporary philosophers have made a significant portion of the discussions on intellectual virtue, the ethics of belief, trust, evidence, and academic ethics accessible to Persian-speaking readers through his efforts. In an interview about Western philosophy and translation, his translations such as "Virtues of the Mind," "Virtue," "The Meaning of Life," and "Towards a Virtuous University" were also mentioned.

The main axes of Khodaparast's work are: moral philosophy, virtue epistemology, the ethics of belief, the philosophy of religion, intellectual autonomy, intellectual virtue, academic ethics, and the relationship between rationality and religious faith. In his works, concepts such as open-mindedness, closed-mindedness, trust, evidence, the divine command, moral virtue, and intellectual virtue hold significant importance.