Farzad Mahootian

Farzad Mahootian is a Clinical Associate Professor of Global Liberal Studies at New York University since 2010. He has an interdisciplinary background (PhD Philosophy, Fordham; MS Chemistry, Georgetown). His research focuses on interactions between philosophy, science and society within the mythological imagination of technoscience and with guidance from process philosophy, biomimicry, artificial intelligence, and premodern sciences. Recent publications include, “Ideals of Human Perfection in Sufism and Transhumanism,” in Tirosh-Samuelson, H., et al., Building a Better Human (2012: Peter Lang); “Jung and Whitehead: An Interplay of Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives,” (with Tare-Marie Linné) in Held, B. & Osbeck, L., Rational Intuition (2014: Cambridge); “Paneth’s epistemology of chemical elements in light of Kant’s Opus postumum,” Foundations of Chemistry, (2013: Springer); “Kant, Cassirer, and the Idea of Chemical Element,” in Ghibaudi, et al, What is a Chemical Element? (2020: Oxford); “Redesigning Relations: Coordinating Machine Learning Variables and Sociobuilt Contexts in COVID-19 and Beyond” (with H. Howland & V. Keyser) in Ehsani, S., et al, The Future Circle of Healthcare (2022: Springer).