Volume 13 (2023)
Volume 12 (2022)
Volume 11 (2021)
Volume 10 (2020)
Volume 9 (2019)
Volume 8 (2018)
Volume 7 (2017)
Volume 6 (2016-2017)
Volume 5 (2015-2016)
Volume 4 (2014)
Volume 3 (2013)
Volume 2 (2012)
Volume 1 (2011)
Social Innovation: Insights from Analytical Philosophy of Technology

Mahmoud Mokhtari

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 14 January 2024

https://doi.org/10.30465/PS.2023.46824.1692

Abstract
  The main idea of this article is based on the comparison of "social innovation" with "technological innovation". In innovation studies, based on Schumpeter's view, innovation is "any invention in ideas, methods, products, services, etc. that are connected to the market and customers" (commercialized ...  Read More

An Analysis of Scientific Error in Reliabilism Epistemology

Mahmoud Mokhtari

Volume 6, Issue 11 , September 2016, , Pages 81-98

Abstract
  According to the traditional definition of knowledge, it seems that the epistemological analysis of error can be conducted through considering any defect in knowledge components: fault belief, false belief, and unjustified belief. However, the arising question is this: Which error is attributable to ...  Read More

Unpredictability of the Fate of Accelerating Universe

Mahmoud Mokhtari; Mehdi Golshani; Samad Khakshournia

Volume 2, Issue 4 , March 2013, , Pages 97-116

Abstract
  The acceleration of the universe has been confirmed through various cosmological observations since 1998. Nevertheless, there are many models proposed to explain this acceleration and there is no broad agreement on the fact. A concordance model titled “ΛCMD” suggests that the energy ...  Read More

Physical Reality in the Classical Electromagnetism

Mahmoud Mokhtari

Volume 1, Issue 1 , September 2011, , Pages 61-74

Abstract
  There are several approaches to the concept of "Filed" in the classical theory of Electromagnetism; Operationalism and Realism are two important strategies in this regard. I this paper the Realistic view of Marc Lang is introduced as well as the empiricist views of Carnap and Bridgman. Lang in his famous ...  Read More