Mahdi Nasrin

Mehdi Nasrin, born 1972, is an Iranian philosophy researcher, lecturer in the philosophy of science, and translator. According to Nashr-e Markaz Publishing, he holds a PhD in philosophy and a master's degree in psychological counseling, and was a faculty member at the Iranian Institute of Philosophy until 2011. He has resided in Canada since 2011, where he also works and conducts research in the field of psychotherapy.

Nasrin's main area of work is the philosophy of science and analytic philosophy, particularly issues at the intersection of science, language, mind, and methodology. His lecture series on the philosophy of science at Sharif University of Technology, delivered in 2004, has been published on Sedanet and is available as an introductory resource on the philosophy of science.

He has also published English-language articles in the fields of philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. For example, his article "Multiple Realizability: Also a Difficulty for Functionalism" was published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies in 2000, addressing the problem of multiple realizability and a critique of functionalism in the philosophy of mind.