Sahar Heydari Fard

Sahar Heydari Fard is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The Ohio State University and a Residential Faculty Fellow at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the dynamics of social change, with particular attention to how societies transform while sustaining the forms of coordination they depend on. She studies how societies change and how institutions can evolve while preserving the conditions that make cooperation and learning possible. Her work focuses on when change strengthens institutions and when it risks undermining them. Her publications include articles in Philosophy of Science, Synthese, Philosophy Compass, and Critical Review, as well as chapters in volumes published by Oxford University Press. Her interest in higher education centers on how its institutional and epistemic infrastructure can adapt responsibly under conditions of rapid social and technological change, while preserving the forms of inquiry and collective knowledge production that make it valuable.