seyyed Hamid Reza Hassani; Asgar Dirbaz; Hadi Mousavi; Malek Shjaei Jashughani
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مبانی روششناختی پارادایمهای عمده علوم انسانی و قضاوت در مورد اعتبار یا عدم اعتبار آنها متکی بر مبانی معرفتشناختی، وجودشناختی و انسانشناختی آن پارادایم است. آشنایی ...
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مبانی روششناختی پارادایمهای عمده علوم انسانی و قضاوت در مورد اعتبار یا عدم اعتبار آنها متکی بر مبانی معرفتشناختی، وجودشناختی و انسانشناختی آن پارادایم است. آشنایی با مباحث انسانشناختی از دیدگاه دیلتای هم برای آشنایی با پارادایم تفسیرگرایی و هم برای شناخت پارادایم هرمنوتیکی مهم است. شناخت هویت دوگانه انسان یکی از اساسیترین عناصر این پارادایم را پیش روی ما قرار میدهد. ارائه تصویر درستی از طبیعت انسانی و چگونگی توسعه بخشیدن به دقت ابزار عملی جریانات علمی یکی از دغدغههای اصلی دیلتای بود. از جمله کارهای بدیع او برقراری تعامل میان دو عنصر «طبیعت انسانی» و «تاریخی بودن» بود که تا زمان او گمان بر تعارض میان آنها میرفت و دیلتای آنها را در خدمت روششناسی علوم انسانی درآورد. او با تبیین مبانی انسانشناختی، معارف به دست آمده از علوم انسانی را معتبرتر از یافتههای علوم طبیعی میدانست و تلاش کرد بواسطه ثبات هویت انسانی در عین تاریخی بودن آن، اعتبار علوم انسانی را نشان دهد. این مقاله بر آن است تا به روشی تحلیلی عناصر اصلی اندیشه دیلتای به دست آید و سپس بر اساس ترکیب این عناصر نشان داده شود که چگونه عینیت علوم انسانی بر این مبنا تأمین میشود.
Mohsen Donyavi
Volume 8, Issue 15 , Summer and Autumn 2018, , Pages 49-63
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Moritz Schlick divides our knowledge of reality and independent external world into two domains of conventional knowledge needed in everyday life, and scientific knowledge. Relying on this division, he shows how logical positivism is not in need of metaphysical confrontation with reality and external ...
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Moritz Schlick divides our knowledge of reality and independent external world into two domains of conventional knowledge needed in everyday life, and scientific knowledge. Relying on this division, he shows how logical positivism is not in need of metaphysical confrontation with reality and external world in either of these realms. The present article studies Moritz Schlick’s academic trend and the turning points of his scientific life, from the tradition of philosophical physicists to succession of Ernst Mach, and to his association with Vienna Cycle; and meanwhile attempts to answer the question of what has been his image of reality and independent world as ontological issues? What always has been taken into consideration about logical positivists is limited to their epistemological and methodological aspects. Here we intent to reproduce the ontological aspect of Schlick’s thoughts, taking into account the challenge that he and the Vienna cycle pose to metaphysics
Majid Tavassoli Roknabadi; Mohammad Shad
Volume 4, Issue 7 , Summer and Autumn 2014, , Pages 53-85
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The notion of pluralism has developed and expanded through the paradigmatic evolution of modern knowledge; Paradigm’s elements changing have caused paradigm shifts and through these shifts, from the objectivist paradigms to relativist paradigm, and critical and combined approaches, the notion of ...
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The notion of pluralism has developed and expanded through the paradigmatic evolution of modern knowledge; Paradigm’s elements changing have caused paradigm shifts and through these shifts, from the objectivist paradigms to relativist paradigm, and critical and combined approaches, the notion of pluralism has developed and formulated and interpreted differently in each of these different approaches. During the course of positivism, pluralism growth conditions have been provided negatively. pluralism`s seed placed in the context of modernism in post positivism period, and developed in critical rationalism course and finally became a robust seedlings in dominance of relativism period. Through the study of knowledge paradigmatic evolution in the West civilization, we can conclude that as the tendency to realistic ontology, absolutist epistemology and quantitative methodology become more we encounter concepts like ‘Centralism’, ‘Holism’, ‘Fundamentalism’, ‘Principalism’, ‘Absolutism’ and ‘Epistemic Dogmatism’ more. So the intensity of commitment to the concept of modern pluralism reduced. On the other hand, as tendency to Idealist ontology, subjective or relativistic epistemology and qualitative methodologies intensifies, some concepts such as ‘Decentralism’, ‘Partial vision’, ‘Destructurim’, ‘Plurality believe’, ‘Relativism’ and ‘Epistemological Skepticism’ are appeared more. So the same result is the case; the commitment to the concept of modern pluralism lessened.
Reza Sadeqi
Volume 5, Issue 9 , Summer and Autumn 2015, , Pages 53-77
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Kuhn’s philosophy is known as the beginning of thpost-positivistic period. In this essay by reviewing Kuhn's critiques on empiricism we'll see that by weakening and justifying the epistemic roles of experience he tries to support and expand the relativism to the realm of natural sciences. Although ...
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Kuhn’s philosophy is known as the beginning of thpost-positivistic period. In this essay by reviewing Kuhn's critiques on empiricism we'll see that by weakening and justifying the epistemic roles of experience he tries to support and expand the relativism to the realm of natural sciences. Although Kuhn seriously criticizes the Vienna Circle, he at the same time maintains some of positivist principles. Thus, according to some interpretations Kuhn’s relativism is the logical consequence of some positivistic foundations and therefore his view is the continuation of positivism. Evaluation evidences of this claim would be the end of this essay.
Roohollah Karimi
Volume 6, Issue 11 , Summer and Autumn 2016, , Pages 53-79
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At the time that whistle of trains, the ringtones of phones and the lighting of lamps leave no room for nineteenth century people to doubt modern science and its technological benefits, Nietzsche challenged it. He criticized the main foundation of modern science that the natural world corresponds with ...
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At the time that whistle of trains, the ringtones of phones and the lighting of lamps leave no room for nineteenth century people to doubt modern science and its technological benefits, Nietzsche challenged it. He criticized the main foundation of modern science that the natural world corresponds with our scientific ‘rules’ or ‘laws’. He also criticized the principle of causality that is very necessary to understand the scientific world. However there are important and subtle differences between his early and middle works and his final works concerning his critics of the concepts of ‘law’ and ‘causality’. In the deeper layers of his critics, Nietzsche was attempting to discover the deep link between science and metaphysics. Therefore, he depicts the emerging of the ‘true world’ fable as weakening the entire edifice of modern science. Hence, Nietzsche considers science as a nihilistic adventure, and comparing science and theology he introduces science as the highest form of ascetic ideal and its best collaborator. It should be noted that the final purpose of Nietzsche will not to discard science and willingness to truth as its main drive, but rebuild it on pillars of new values that say yes to life.
yasser delfani; Ahmadreza Hemmatimoghaddam
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Physicalism is a view that holds everything is physical and considers phenomenal consciousness as a physical phenomenon. The Zombie conceivability argument that has been raised by David Chalmers shows that phenomenal consciousness cannot be a physical phenomenon. As a result, the claim of physicalism ...
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Physicalism is a view that holds everything is physical and considers phenomenal consciousness as a physical phenomenon. The Zombie conceivability argument that has been raised by David Chalmers shows that phenomenal consciousness cannot be a physical phenomenon. As a result, the claim of physicalism is false. Two-dimensional semantics is one of the components of this argument that plays an important role in constructing the first and second premisses of this argument so that without it this argument would not be formed. It establishes primary conceivability in the first premise and primary and secondary possibility in the second premise so that provides the inference of secondary possibility from primary possibility. Our purpose in this article is to explain and clarify two-dimensional semantics and its role in this argument.
Moslem Peymany
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In this paper, a general overview of philosophy of finance was searched and discussed as one of the topics in the philosophy of science and its importance was analyzed. In this regard, some of the issues raised in finance were examined from three aspects of ontology, epistemology and methodology, according ...
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In this paper, a general overview of philosophy of finance was searched and discussed as one of the topics in the philosophy of science and its importance was analyzed. In this regard, some of the issues raised in finance were examined from three aspects of ontology, epistemology and methodology, according to which, first of all, both finance and its categories, despite the claim of realism, face two issues of objectivity and generalization. Second, financial theories are largely positivist and generally functionalist approaches, both of which have cognitive limitations for this branch of science. Also, although there is evidence of paradigm shift and a Cohen’s scientific revolution in finance with the advent of behavioral finance, it may be a bit hasty to confirm this because of its short lifespan, but the development of financial theories is consistent with Lakatosh's research programs. Finally, the role of ethics in finance was discussed and the need to pay more attention to the goals in finance was pointed out.
Masoud Zia Ali Nasab Pour
Volume 7, Issue 14 , Winter and Spring 2018, , Pages 59-83
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In this paper I will examine Ichikawa & Jarvis’s model (2011) as an imagination-based model for the explanation of acquiring modal knowledge (or possibility of such knowledge). After defining coherent imagination, Ichikawa & Jarvis claim that while we cannot find out about metaphysical ...
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In this paper I will examine Ichikawa & Jarvis’s model (2011) as an imagination-based model for the explanation of acquiring modal knowledge (or possibility of such knowledge). After defining coherent imagination, Ichikawa & Jarvis claim that while we cannot find out about metaphysical possibility with imagination, we can reach another kind of possibility, i.e. conceptual possibility. To explain which proposition is conceptually possible, they use the notion of “conceptual entailment”; a proposition is conceptually possible if it doesn’t conceptually entail an absurdity. Ichikawa & Jarvis show that conceptual possibility and coherent imagination is coextensive, so if we can coherently imagine a proposition, it is conceptually possible. Ichikawa & Jarvis, then, propose a model for the relation between conceptual and metaphysical modality: If proposition P conceptually entails that a proposition, which is not in fact true, is true in the actual world, then P is metaphysically impossible. In this paper after presenting Ichikawa & Jarvis’s model, I will argue that their model is incaple of providing an explanation for acquiring modal knowledge (or possibility of such knowledge) by imagination.
Mahmoud Mokhtari
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Summer and Autumn 2011, , Pages 61-74
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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 ...
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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 book "An Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics" suggests two essential questions about "action at distance" and "reality of fields" and after a proper discussion conclude that the Classical Physics is not capable of dissolving the problems relating the locality and the ontology of energy and field, and it is the mission of the Special Theory of Relativity.
Seyyed Mohammad Reza Amiri
Volume 1, Issue 2 , Winter and Spring 2012, , Pages 65-95
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At the beginning, mentions will be made to definitions and analyses posed by philosophers of technology such as Martin Heidegger, Mario Jung, and Stephen Kline of the concept of technology; then, the author will describe how such definitions may be applied to the concept of ecommerce. After it, through ...
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At the beginning, mentions will be made to definitions and analyses posed by philosophers of technology such as Martin Heidegger, Mario Jung, and Stephen Kline of the concept of technology; then, the author will describe how such definitions may be applied to the concept of ecommerce. After it, through analysis of ideas posed by Martin Heidegger, Karl Marx, Jacques Ellul, Donald Mackenzie, Hans Jonas, and Andrew Feenberg which are discussed in the philosophy of technology concerning requirements of technological civilization, limitations imposed by ecommerce on individuals and society will be discussed. Such requirements will evidently cause the issue of relation between morality and technology to emerge. In the present writing, the issue of morality and technology will be studied from three respects: determination of objectives, ways and means to attain objectives, and effects of technology. Then, virtual and meta-reality of postmodern technology will be discussed; and from this perspective, effects and consequences of ecommerce for the identities of individuals and traditions of the society will be analyzed.
Mohammad Saeedimehr; Sakineh Karimi
Volume 3, Issue 6 , Winter and Spring 2014, , Pages 47-71
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In the light of the analysis of Avicenna’s definition of “nature” we can discover the main principles of his physics, which are: ‘The agency of the nature’, ‘the directness of this agency’, ‘the natural object’, and ‘the essential agency of ...
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In the light of the analysis of Avicenna’s definition of “nature” we can discover the main principles of his physics, which are: ‘The agency of the nature’, ‘the directness of this agency’, ‘the natural object’, and ‘the essential agency of the nature’. One of the main consequences of this analysis is that the nature could be considered as the direct cause of the motion, immobility and spatial balance of the material objects. Moreover, it shows that natural objects are essentially capable of possess natural properties. Accordingly, Avicenna considers that the natural properties are the same as the essential properties, which material objects have them necessarily.
Foad Sadeghi; Maryam Jamshidi; Seyyed Ammar Kalantari
Volume 2, Issue 4 , Winter and Spring 2013, , Pages 51-73
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Nowadays, Thousands of English and Persian scientific articles are produced Annual and total of Journals and Depth research, are growing Tenfold than the past. So, is the Science growing such the total of articles and ISI in our country? In this article, being discussed with the Challenge to Common Criteria ...
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Nowadays, Thousands of English and Persian scientific articles are produced Annual and total of Journals and Depth research, are growing Tenfold than the past. So, is the Science growing such the total of articles and ISI in our country? In this article, being discussed with the Challenge to Common Criteria Journals of Research and Review gave no idea of the scientific Ideational method about the actual criteria scientific article. And finally, introduction and providing two criteria of the Benefit method and repeatability and Verification for the other researches along with the synergy of science and having new ideas as Fundamental standards of science as being an article. Also providing Procedures to produce scientific papers.
Mahnaz Farahmand
Volume 3, Issue 5 , Summer and Autumn 2013, , Pages 57-71
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This paper is allocated to analyze the key concepts of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of science and Actor- Network Theory. Through considering the concepts of field, capital, and symbolic capital, Bourdieu regards the circumstances of science production. He draw this strategy from his first argument ...
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This paper is allocated to analyze the key concepts of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of science and Actor- Network Theory. Through considering the concepts of field, capital, and symbolic capital, Bourdieu regards the circumstances of science production. He draw this strategy from his first argument on the competition between science supporters and claimants over capital. Through criticizing Actor- Network theory, which nullifies the distinctions between human and non human actors, he portrays a comprehensive picture of the new sociology of science’s irregularities. However, the actor-network theory accuses the Bourdieu ideas to have classical sociology of science’s defects. In this paper through a comparative examination of the two approaches’ theoretical dimensions from various aspects, we will specify their basic and conceptual distinctions.
Ali Azizi; Mostafa Taghavi
Volume 4, Issue 8 , Winter and Spring 2015, , Pages 59-74
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The viewpoints of Kuhn and Feyerabend, as two philosophers of science, are similar in many aspects, even the same in certain problems. They do not believe in any objective and universal rationality, hence, their views are regarded relativistic by many other philosophers. These two philosophers, belong ...
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The viewpoints of Kuhn and Feyerabend, as two philosophers of science, are similar in many aspects, even the same in certain problems. They do not believe in any objective and universal rationality, hence, their views are regarded relativistic by many other philosophers. These two philosophers, belong to the second half of the twentieth century and are considered as a response to positivism and negativism. Despite the extensive correspondences, there are some significant differences between them. In this paper, we have tried to derive and analyze the criticisms of Feyerabend to Kuhn's viewpoint on science, such as critisizing the Kuhn's ideological approach to history, the domain of his incommensurability, the ambiguity in normativeness and descriptiveness of his ideas, unjustifiable transition from tenacity to proliferation, failure in discriminating between science and non-science via theoretical entities such as paradigm and normal science, and finally restricting the scientists’ freedom throughout the normal science.
mojtaba zareei
Volume 6, Issue 2 , Winter and Spring 2017, , Pages 61-82
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In modern times, human beings have witnessed some changes including a disassociation between natural sciences and humanities. In this course, natural sciences, with a focus on such disciplines as mathematics, physics, and chemistry became the queen of human knowledge. That the sciences have enabled ...
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In modern times, human beings have witnessed some changes including a disassociation between natural sciences and humanities. In this course, natural sciences, with a focus on such disciplines as mathematics, physics, and chemistry became the queen of human knowledge. That the sciences have enabled human to get benefits from nature has led to the prevalence of the idea that they can be applied to other areas of knowledge such as human-related sciences, that’s why what today is called ‘methodological unity’ emerged during this period. ‘Sensory experience’ is the only appeal natural sciences recognize, and this experience is the basis of truth. Sensory experience in naturalist thoughts is a special and unique phenomenon and thus their results can’t be extended to the other events of future. On the other hand, disbelieving in generalizability will undermine the conditions of law in these thoughts. But providing a unique perception of time and its relation with mankind, and also believing in a set of general and universal principles that have been laid down in human nature, nativisitc thought dispels the fundamental contradictions of the philosophies stemmed from natural sciences.
Amin Motevallian
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The connection between low of nature and natural things is an important problem in metaphysics of science. There are two groups that defense this connection. The first who believe that low are contingent, suppose this connection is week. The last think law is grand in properties of natural kind. Essentialist ...
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The connection between low of nature and natural things is an important problem in metaphysics of science. There are two groups that defense this connection. The first who believe that low are contingent, suppose this connection is week. The last think law is grand in properties of natural kind. Essentialist as an example of last group, in any view, claim that natural laws, metaphysically, are necessity. Backing to history of science as a usual method, essentialist find out the relation between kinds and law. In this Issue, by explaining the alchemical Mizan law, we study the relation between essentialism and mizan.
Mahnaz Farahmand
Volume 5, Issue 10 , Winter and Spring 2016, , Pages 65-80
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As a controversial notion, realism has always been a major concern of philosophers of science and experts in the field of sociology of scientific knowledge. The main aim of this article is to review and study the two different approaches of Bhaskar’s concept of critical realism and Latour's realism. ...
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As a controversial notion, realism has always been a major concern of philosophers of science and experts in the field of sociology of scientific knowledge. The main aim of this article is to review and study the two different approaches of Bhaskar’s concept of critical realism and Latour's realism. Bhaskar argues that there is more ‘what is there’ than ’what is known’; there is more power to the use than application of power. Appealing Constructivism, Latour, in the opposite side, emphasizes making scientific facts thorough the process of scientific activity. In this paper, Latour and Bhaskar's main claims are illustrated in details, and also through a comparative study of their ideas, congruent and different aspects of their thoughts will be described.
Mehdi Golshani
Volume 8, Issue 15 , Summer and Autumn 2018, , Pages 65-80
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From the view of Aristotle, Muslim philosophers and the Christian Philosophers of the middle ages, all sciences were under the umbrella of philosophy. But, after the development of modern science and the growth of empiricism, philosophy lost its glory and attention was given primarily to specialized ...
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From the view of Aristotle, Muslim philosophers and the Christian Philosophers of the middle ages, all sciences were under the umbrella of philosophy. But, after the development of modern science and the growth of empiricism, philosophy lost its glory and attention was given primarily to specialized sciences. But during the second half of the twentieth century, the defects of empiricism became apparent and several trends emerged:(1) Some scholars mentioned that science can’t answer all questions of human concern and there is a need for a more general framework.(2) There was a movement towards interdisciplinary studies, and there was a revival of philosophy among scientists.(3) Positivists spoke of unified science, i.e. all sciences could be reduced to a single science, e. g. Physics.(4) Many distinguished scientists mentioned that different specialties should be pursued under a holistic view, so they recommended to look for a worldview that works as an umbrella for all sciences.
seyedali kalantari
Volume 8, Issue 16 , Winter and Spring 2019, , Pages 65-84
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As moral principles constrain our actions normatively, distinguish them into correct and incorrect categories; according to normativity of logic thesis, logical principles constrain normatively our thinking and reasoning (e.g. see MacFarlane 2004; Steinberger 2017a, 2017b, 2017c). There are various formulations ...
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As moral principles constrain our actions normatively, distinguish them into correct and incorrect categories; according to normativity of logic thesis, logical principles constrain normatively our thinking and reasoning (e.g. see MacFarlane 2004; Steinberger 2017a, 2017b, 2017c). There are various formulations for the normativity in the literature which have been subject to sever debates in the last decades. In this paper I will consider such formulations on the basis of Harman's (1984, 1986) famous objections. Harman's strategy to criticize the normativity is try to justify the claim that there is no rational way to formulate the thesis. I will argue, however, that there is a plausible formulation for the normativity of logic thesis such that survives Harman's attacks. In the last step, I will explain the normativity of logic thesis, on the basis of the concept of belief. In order to do so, I will elucidate the normativity of belief thesis, and then argue that the thesis entails the normativity of logic thesis.
Rahman Sharifzadeh
Volume 2, Issue 3 , Summer and Autumn 2012, , Pages 69-91
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Kuhn argues that while revival scientific paradigms are incommensurable claims they are incompatible as well. This brings about a problem: how two incommensurable theories could be incompatible? Incommensurability entails that two rival theories should have different cognitive domain and taxonomic structure, ...
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Kuhn argues that while revival scientific paradigms are incommensurable claims they are incompatible as well. This brings about a problem: how two incommensurable theories could be incompatible? Incommensurability entails that two rival theories should have different cognitive domain and taxonomic structure, this expression then blocks the emergence of contradiction among statements. In this essay we intend to propose a semantic theory and distinct two kinds of incompatibility, sentential incompatibility and taxonomic structural incompatibility, and thereby attempt to defend incompatibility and incommensurability of paradigms.
Aryan Kavosh; Faraz Golafshan; Nazanin Soleimani; Seyedeh parnian Hosseini kazerouni
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From a phenomenological perspective, we review the concept of empathy in medicine to identify the theoretical obstacles which have prevented reaching intersubjectivity and proper understanding. Where medicine has failed are: attending to subjectivities of patient and physician, recognizing the dynamic ...
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From a phenomenological perspective, we review the concept of empathy in medicine to identify the theoretical obstacles which have prevented reaching intersubjectivity and proper understanding. Where medicine has failed are: attending to subjectivities of patient and physician, recognizing the dynamic nature of empathy and acknowledging context-dependency of empathy. We also review the problematic practical consequences of this theoretical failure including serving medical paternalism, hindering medical practice, and being used as a tool for counterbalancing inadequate health budget and serving political power. Thus, using and interdisciplinary approach, we argue why the concept of empathy in medicine needs to be reviewed under the light of phenomenology and progress in line with second wave of medical humanities; put philosophy at its core to once again integrate proper understanding of the patient with the concept of medicine .
Seyed Ali Kalantarin
Volume 7, Issue 13 , Summer and Autumn 2017, , Pages 73-85
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According to Russell’s (1905) definite description theory, the content of a sentence such as ‘the present king of France is bald’ can be presented by the logical form of the sentence, that is, ‘there is exactly one thing which is the king of France and the thing is bald’. ...
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According to Russell’s (1905) definite description theory, the content of a sentence such as ‘the present king of France is bald’ can be presented by the logical form of the sentence, that is, ‘there is exactly one thing which is the king of France and the thing is bald’. This paper has a modest aim to consider specific evidence against Russell’s theory. In order to challenge this theory, we will first argue that if one in a situation in which France does not have king asserts that ‘the present king of France is bald’ and in another situation one asserts the logical form of the sentence, our judgment will be different about their truth values (call it ‘the disparity problem’). We will then consider the question that whether proponent of Russell’s definite description can explain the disparity problem or not. On behalf of proponent of Russell’s definite description, and on the basis of Grice's (1970) distinction between speaker meaning and sentence meaning, we will propose an explanation for the disparity problem; it also should be mentioned that the explanation is already endorsed by some proponents of Russell’s definite description (e.g. Sainsbury (1979, 1991); Morris (2003)). I will however argue that the explanation is not plausible. My argument will leave Russell’s theory in an un-defensible position in the sense that it shows Gricean defense against disparity problem is not plausible.
Mahdi Moinzadeh
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Summer and Autumn 2011, , Pages 75-103
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Believing in a human will independent ‘essence’ for technology, will have far reaching implications for a thinker’s whole reflections on technology. Heidegger belongs to the camp of philosophers (so called ‘essentialists’) that believe in a such essence Until achieving to ...
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Believing in a human will independent ‘essence’ for technology, will have far reaching implications for a thinker’s whole reflections on technology. Heidegger belongs to the camp of philosophers (so called ‘essentialists’) that believe in a such essence Until achieving to the ultimate aim of his thinking about technology – getting rid of Gestell – Heidegger continues to emphasize on this essence. In this essay I at first will try to correspond the reasons that Heidegger holds in favor of attaining a essence by technology with medical technology. Then I will discuss those critical standpoints with which Heidegger’s view could be confronted them.
Rahman Sharifzadeh
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Do Artifacts Have Morality?
Bruno Latour and Technology Ethics In this paper, discussing Bruno Latour’s concept of technological mediation, we will claim that according to three kinds of technological mediations there would be three kinds of relations between morality and technology; ...
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Do Artifacts Have Morality?
Bruno Latour and Technology Ethics In this paper, discussing Bruno Latour’s concept of technological mediation, we will claim that according to three kinds of technological mediations there would be three kinds of relations between morality and technology; Technology is part of our ethical actions, we delegate some of our ethical actions to technology, and technology can create, or change, our ethically important intentions. We will then discuss moral responsibility. Separating responsibility from accountability, we will show that networked actions neither nullify human’s moral responsibility nor grant moral responsibility to technology, yet meaningfully, we can talk about ‘technology punishment’.
zohreh Abdekhodaie; ghasem purhasan; Ali Akbar Ahmadi Afarmajani; Hossein KalbasiAshtari
Volume 5, Issue 9 , Summer and Autumn 2015, , Pages 79-100
