Soroush Marouzi, PhD
Business and Liberal Arts Center, Room B601C
Education
BA, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
MA, University of New Hampshire
PhD, University of Toronto, Canada
Biography
Soroush Marouzi is a historian and philosopher of science with a special interest in economics. His research focuses on the nature and value of human rationality. As a historian, he studies conceptions of rationality that emerged in Britain in the wake of the Great War and the perceived role of rationality in shaping and improving economic and political life. As a philosopher, Dr. Marouzi builds on this historical research to explore the epistemology of rationality, with particular attention to the role that habits play in rational life.
Dr. Marouzi joined the department of Social Sciences in fall 2025. Before that, he was a research fellow at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University and a James Buchanan Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He conducted archival research at several institutions, particularly at the University of Cambridge, with the support of various research grants. Recent awards include the JHET Early Career Scholar Award from the History of Economics Society and the Gilles Dostaler Award from the European Society for the History of Economic Thought.
Teaching is deeply meaningful to Dr. Marouzi. He finds it incredibly rewarding to see students gain confidence in their ability to think clearly, articulate their ideas, and engage thoughtfully with complex issues. As a philosophy teacher, he does not see his role as that of someone who possesses the truth and simply delivers it to students; rather, he views the classroom as a collaborative intellectual space in which we work together to question assumptions, examine arguments, and move closer to understanding what is true and worth believing. Supporting students’ intellectual growth and helping them discover the relevance of philosophy to their own lives is one of the most fulfilling aspects of Dr. Marouzi's work.
Research Interests
- History and Philosophy of Science (especially the human sciences in the twentieth century)
- Intellectual History and the History of Economic Thought
- The History of Analytic Philosophy
- Epistemology
- Action Theory
Selected Publications
Marouzi, Soroush, and Mehdi Ebrahimpour. “When There Was Nothing to Discuss.” Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 15, no. 5 (2026).
Marouzi, Soroush. “In Search of Lost Reason: Ramsey, Keynes, and the Intellectualism Debate.” History of Social Science 2, no. 1 (2026): 45-86.
Marouzi, Soroush. “How to Leap Without Looking: The Role of Habits in Rational Life.” Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 17, no. 2 (2024): 265-268.
Marouzi, Soroush. “Frank Ramsey’s Anti-Intellectualism.” Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 12, no. 2 (2024).
Marouzi, Soroush. “Frank Plumpton Ramsey and the Politics of Motherhood.” Journal of the History of Economic Thought 44, no. 4 (2022).
Conferences and Presentations
“Pragmatism and the Politics of Rationality in Interwar Britain,” The Sixteenth Biennial Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, 2026
“Frank Ramsey’s Politics,” Lunch Seminar, Center for the History of Political Economy, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, 2025
“In Search of Lost Reason: Ramsey, Keynes, and the Intellectualism Debate,” History of Economics Society–The Annual Conference, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile, 2024
“When There Was Nothing to Discuss,” Society for the History of Analytical Philosophy – The Annual Conference, University of Connecticut, Hartford, USA, 2024
“John Maynard Keynes’s Anti-Intellectualism,” Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science – The Annual Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada, 2023.
“John Maynard Keynes’s Anti-Intellectualism,” British Society for the History of Science – The Annual Postgraduate Conference, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 2023.
“Frank Ramsey’s Anti-Intellectualist Theory of Judgment,” British Society for the History of Philosophy – The Annual Conference, The Royal Society of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2022.
“Intelligent Habits,” 2nd Young Scholars Pragmatism Conference, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 2021.
Awards
Gilles Dostaler Award, 2025, European Society for the History of Economic Thought
Best Conference Paper by a Young Scholar, 2024, History of Economics Society
JHET Early Career Scholar Award, 2024, History of Economics Society
Graduate Student Scholarship for Studies in History of Ideas, 2022, The Robert & Moira Sansom ideas Foundation, London Community Foundation
Mary H. Beatty Fellowship, 2019, University of Toronto
Elizabeth Bogan Award, 2016, University of New Hampshire
Courses
- PL 300 Business Ethics
- PL 431 Philosophy: Ethics