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Investigating the status of scientific productions and the co-occurrence of words in the field of philosophy based on articles indexed in the Web of Science database

abolfazk asadnia; fatemeh makkizadeh; Fezeh Ebrahimi

Volume 13, Issue 1 , July 2023, Pages 1-27

https://doi.org/10.30465/ps.2023.45262.1672

Abstract
  Philosophy is the art and science of thinking and gaining into the world and things. It seems important to identify the research fields and the scope of its subjects. This research was done with the aim of achieving a comprehensive understanding of the process and thematic structure of articles in the ...  Read More

Scientific Structuralism and Newman’s Objection

Javad Akbari Takhtameshlou; Seyed Mehdi Hosseini Nasab

Volume 13, Issue 1 , July 2023, Pages 29-65

https://doi.org/10.30465/ps.2023.45447.1674

Abstract
  Since the beginning of the 20th century, philosophers of science—both realist and anti-realist—have shown a special tendency toward the concept of ‘structure’, mainly to address certain problems in the process of understanding science (particularly some serious problems arising ...  Read More

An Epistemological Analysis of the Challenge of Social Sciences' Deficiency in Iran

Seyed Mohammad Reza Amiri Tehrani

Volume 13, Issue 1 , July 2023, Pages 67-90

https://doi.org/10.30465/ps.2023.45467.1675

Abstract
  With regards to the inefficiencies and uncompromising situations within the humanities and social sciences field in Iran, the challenge of problematizing these sciences is inevitable. So far, numerous research analyzing humanities and social sciences’ problems in the Iranian academic system have ...  Read More

"understanding" in humanities and natural sciences, with a look at Stephen Grimm's point of view

Parisa Saatchi Fard; Keyvan Alasti

Volume 13, Issue 1 , July 2023, Pages 91-115

https://doi.org/10.30465/ps.2023.45109.1668

Abstract
  In all periods of history, human has been trying to "understand". In order to understanding the natural world, scientists first observe samples and then classify them based on similarity. To figure out the actions of people, the matter seems different. To achieve this, we need to understand the intentions ...  Read More

the role of hypothesis in Cartesian science

seyedmostafa shahraeini; mojtaba jalili

Volume 13, Issue 1 , July 2023, Pages 117-134

https://doi.org/10.30465/ps.2023.45649.1677

Abstract
  At first, it seems that in Cartesian science which seeks to master the world based on its rationalistic and ontological foundations, there is no room for hypothesis of any kind; because whatever appears before the modern reason, is so clear that needs not to any assumption. This view is both correct ...  Read More

A critical review of ontological theories of technical artifacts

Emad Tayebi; Alireza Mansouri

Volume 13, Issue 1 , July 2023, Pages 135-157

https://doi.org/10.30465/ps.2023.44732.1662

Abstract
  The ontological problem of technical artifacts is: what makes an object count as a technical artifact? Most theories have investigated the ontology of artifacts in terms of ‘function’. A group of these theories has highlighted the physical structure of the artifact because of its causal role ...  Read More

Einstein and Mach’s principle

Seyed Saied Mirahmadi

Volume 13, Issue 1 , July 2023, Pages 159-192

https://doi.org/10.30465/ps.2023.45029.1667

Abstract
  Newton considered the dynamical effects exerted upon accelerating bodies (such as the concavity of the surface of the water in Newton’s bucket experiment, etc.) to be caused by their acceleration relative to absolute space. Following Mach’s ideas, Einstein, based on the thought that all motion ...  Read More

Feyerabend against Technocracy and Chauvinism of Science

Mohsen Khademi

Volume 13, Issue 1 , July 2023, Pages 91-115

https://doi.org/10.30465/ps.2023.46737.1690

Abstract
  Paul Karl Feyerabend is one of the extremely influential philosophers of science in the second half of the twentieth century that his controversial works and opinions have reduplicated his reputation. This is his provocative works led to a misunderstanding for some academics and experts in philosophy, ...  Read More

Conceptual and Practical Transformation of Gender through Mediation of Technology

Zahra Zargar

Volume 13, Issue 1 , July 2023, Pages 117-149

https://doi.org/10.30465/ps.2023.46108.1679

Abstract
  “Gender” has a transformative nature in both its conceptual and practical aspects. As a result of changes in the material conditions of human life and social contracts, gender issues vary over time and across cultures and societies. In recent centuries, “technology” has been one ...  Read More

موازین ”درستی“ و ”عقلانیت“ در علوم اجتماعی

saeid zibakalam

Volume 13, Issue 1 , July 2023, Pages 151-158

https://doi.org/10.30465/ps.2023.46368.1686

Abstract
  In a previously published short article, I had simply remarked that in the extremely complex and fluctuating political arena, political scientists, political philosophers, political activists and politicians have never been able to reach a tentative trans-historical and trans-social consensus about criteria ...  Read More

Evidence-Based Medicine: an Evolutionary Apprisal

Hadi Samadi

Volume 13, Issue 1 , July 2023, Pages 203-221

https://doi.org/10.30465/ps.2023.46839.1694

Abstract
  This article is an evolutionary defense of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM), which is an approach to medicine that considers researches published in reputable medical journals as the main basis of therapeutic interventions. In this approach, physician’s personal experiences and her intuition, and ...  Read More

A reflection on the subjective interpretation of the philosophy of probability: probabilistic cognition and non-probabilistic perception

Ramin Kazemi; Mohammad Raayat Jahromi; Javid Kazemi

Volume 13, Issue 1 , July 2023, Pages 216-301

https://doi.org/10.30465/ps.2023.46283.1681

Abstract
  The subjective interpretation, as one of the four conventional interpretations of the philosophy of probability, was introduced by Frank Ramsey and Bruno De Finetti to overcome some problems of Bayesianism. This interpretation has fans today and is of interest to many Bayesians. The epistemological feature ...  Read More