Shadi Heidarifar

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in philosophy at the University of Florida. My research focuses on taking a virtue approach to social ontology and epistemology. In my dissertation, I argue that bringing moral and epistemic virtues into explaining complex social structures is crucial for comprehensively understanding such phenomena. As an extension of this theoretical framework, I focus on gendered and ethnoracialized social structures in my empirically informed project, especially in education, healthcare, and technology. For instance, in my upcoming book project, Exceptional Women [tentative title], I focus on all-or-nothing attitudes to women’s healthcare and its result, false consciousness as a structural epistemic vice.