Mohammad-Mehdi Hatef

Mohammad Mehdi Hatef was born in 1984 in Tehran. He received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, a master's degree in Western philosophy from Allameh Tabataba'i University, and a PhD in the philosophy of science from the Iranian Institute of Philosophy.

Hatef has taught at various universities and higher education institutions, including Shahid Beheshti University, the University of Mashhad, Arak University, the University of Ardabil, Islamic Azad University, the Iranian Institute of Philosophy, and the University of Science and Culture. He has also been a postdoctoral researcher at the Iranian Institute of Philosophy, had a research opportunity at the University of Barcelona, and worked in the Ethics of Science group at the National Research Institute for Science Policy.

His translated, authored, and edited works include a translation of Peter Singer's A Darwinian Left, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Medicine, the essay collection Scientific Progress, and a translation of Larry Laudan's Progress and Its Problems. His research interests focus on the philosophy of science, the problem of induction, evolutionary models of science, scientific realism, social ontology, and the relationship between science, society, and politics.

He has also published articles in international journals and conferences, including on ontological solutions to the problem of induction, a re-reading of David Hull's evolutionary model of science, and the relationship between social entities and scientific realism.