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Name: Aavani

First Name: Gholam Reza

Born: 1943, Seman, Iran

Position: Professor of Philosophy at Shahid Beheshti

University since 1974

President of the Iranian Academy of Philosophy since 1987.

Director of the Research College of Philosophy 1990- 2000.

Founder and director of the Iranian research Institute of Philosophy 2001

Teaching: I have taught philosophy mainly in the M.A and Ph.D. programs in the following subjects: British Empirical Philosophy, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Plato, Aristotle and courses on comparative themes in philosophy, ontology and epistemology.

Books and Articles: I have authored eight books in Philosophy and edited several works in Islamic Philosophy. A collection of my articles in Persian have been published under the title Philosophy and Art. I have also translated the poems of a well-Knowh Persian poet into English (Nasir- Khusraw: Forty Pomes from the Divan).

I have also been invited to many international congresses abroad where. I have Presented articles in the related areas.