Sahar Heydari Fard

Sahar Heydari Fard is a Sawyer Fellow in the Department of Humanities. She teaches courses in applied ethics, philosophy of the social sciences, philosophy of race and gender, and introductory humanities. Her research focuses on social movements and social change, why and how they happen, and our individual moral responsibility to them and their goals.

Education

University of Cincinnati
PhD Candidate in Philosophy 
M.Sc. in Applied Economics

Texas Tech University
M.A. Philosophy, 2015

Sharif University of Technology
M.Sc. Philosophy of Science, 2013

University of Tehran
B.Sc. Physics, 2008

Research Interests

The Morality of Social Movements

Awards

Exemplary Scholarship Award, Graduate Student Governance, University of Cincinnati, Spring 2020.

Publications

Heydari Fard, S. (2018). “Decision-Theoretic Consequentialism and The Desire-Luck Problem.” Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics, 5(1), 71.

Grants

Research Grant, Graduate Student Governance, University of Cincinnati, Spring 2020.

Conference Grant for Complexity, Social Cognition, and Social Explanation Workshop, Charles Phelps Taft Research Center and Graduate Student Governance Group Grant, Spring 2020.

Conference Grant for SWIP Conference, Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, Fall 2019.

Community Service

Panelist, Women’s Empowerment Network, Spring Risk-Takers Panel, Cincinnati State College, 2019.

Invited Speaker, “The New Colossus,” Mercantile Library and Chase Public Community Center, 2018.

Professional Activities

Referee

• The Journal of Value Inquiry
• Ergo

Conferences and Workshops

• Organizer, “Complexity and Social Change” Workshop, University of Cincinnati, 2020
• Host and Co-organizer, Annual US Midwest Society for Women in Philosophy Conference, University of Cincinnati, 2019
• Co-organizer, Ohio Philosophical Association (OPA) Conference, 2018
• Co-organizer, EPIC Workshop (Emerging Philosophers Institute at Cincinnati), 2018
• Referee, Texas Tech Annual Graduate Conference, 2015

Events

• Co-organizer, Minority and Philosophy Reading Groups, University of Cincinnati, Fall 2018, Spring 2019

Other

• Committee Member, American Philosophical Association Graduate Council, 2019-2020
  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • Teaching 
  • Communication
• Founder, Minority and Philosophy, Cincinnati Chapter, University of Cincinnati 2018-2019
• President, Philosophy Graduate Student Governance Association, University of Cincinnati 2018-2019

Affiliations

Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP)

Society for Analytical Feminism (SAF)

North American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP)

Concerned Philosophers for Peace (CPP)

American Philosophical Association (APA)

Southern Society of Philosophy and Psychology (SSPP)

Ohio Philosophical Association (OPA)

Expertise

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Applied Ethics

Philosophy of Race and Gender