| Region: | Western philosophy |
| Era: | 21st-century philosophy |
| Arash Abizadeh | |
| Birth Place: | Shiraz, Iran[1] |
| 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 |
| Education: | University of Winnipeg (BA) University of Oxford (MPhil) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Website: | http://abizadeh.wixsite.com/arash |
Arash Abizadeh (Persian: آرش ابی زاده ) 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.[2] [3] [4] [5] 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.[6]