Iranian thinker
Mustafa Zali
Mustafa ZaliMetaphysics and Political PhilosophyIranian
Life and Thought
Mostafa Zali, born 1985 in Karaj, is a philosophy researcher and faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Tehran. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering and two master's degrees, in computer engineering and philosophy, from the University of Tehran.
The subject of his thesis in computer engineering was the application of mathematical logic in computer science, and in philosophy, the metaphysics of modality in contemporary analytic philosophy. Zali defended his doctoral dissertation at the University of Tehran in 2016 and now holds the rank of assistant professor. He is also a member of the research committee of the Center for Monitoring, Planning, and Evaluation of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution.
Intellectual and Research Areas
His primary research areas are metaphysics and political philosophy. In metaphysics, his focus is on Avicenna, Aristotle, Hegel, analytic philosophy, modal logic, and the problem of possibility and necessity. In political philosophy, he attends to the theory of justice and normative issues in politics. His simultaneous background in computer engineering and philosophy has placed some of his interests at the intersection of logic, metaphysics, and conceptual analysis.
