Arash Abizadeh

{{short description|Canadian philosopher}}

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|era = 21st-century philosophy

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|name = Arash Abizadeh

|honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|FRSC|size=100%}}

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|birth_place =Shiraz, Iran{{cite news| url=https://chicagomaroon.com/23727/news/iranian-canadian-guest-lecturer-cancels-executive/|title=Guest Lecturer Born in Iran Cancels After Immigration Executive Order|newspaper=Chicago Maroon |last1=Grieve |first1=Pete }}

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|school_tradition = Analytic philosophy

|institutions = McGill University

|main_interests = Political philosophy, early modern philosophy

| thesis_title = Rhetoric, the Passions, and Difference in Discursive Democracy

| thesis_url = https://philpapers.org/rec/ABIRTP

| thesis_year = 2001

| doctoral_advisor = Seyla Benhabib

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| education = University of Winnipeg (BA)
University of Oxford (MPhil)
Harvard University (PhD)

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|website = http://abizadeh.wixsite.com/arash

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Arash Abizadeh ({{langx|fa|آرش ابی‌زاده }}) {{post-nominals|country=CAN| FRSC|}} is an Iranian-Canadian philosopher, R.B. Angus Professor of Political Science, and Associate Member of the Department of Philosophy at McGill University. He is known for his expertise on democratic theory, political and social power, migration and border control, and Thomas Hobbes.{{cite web |title=Online Colloquium (1): Introduction to Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics |url=http://www.europeanhobbessociety.org/general/online-colloquium-1-introduction-to-hobbes-and-the-two-faces-of-ethics/ |website=European Hobbes Society |date=14 December 2018}}{{cite web |title=Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics |url=http://www.lecre.umontreal.ca/hobbes-and-the-two-faces-of-ethics/ |website=Centre de recherche en éthique |language=fr-FR |date=17 August 2018}}{{cite web |title=Online Colloquium (2): Field on Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics |url=http://www.europeanhobbessociety.org/general/online-colloquium-2-field-on-hobbes-and-the-two-faces-of-ethics/ |website=European Hobbes Society |accessdate=16 February 2019 |date=21 December 2018}}{{cite web |title=Arash Abizadeh |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=jAdDBmAAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&pagesize=100 |website=Google Scholar Citations |accessdate=16 February 2019}}

He is a recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship (1994).

As a democratic theorist he is known for his advocacy of sortition, and has proposed the adoption of random selection to fill seats in the Senate of Canada.{{cite news |last1=Abizadeh |first1=Arash |title=Opinion: Let's replace Canada's Senate with a randomly selected citizen assembly |url=https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-lets-replace-canadas-senate-with-a-randomly-selected-citizen-assembly |access-date=10 June 2024}}