Volume 13 (2023)
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Volume 11 (2021)
Volume 10 (2020)
Volume 9 (2019)
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Volume 5 (2015-2016)
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Number of Articles: 6
Stephens’ Model inability to Limiting ‘Better Safe than Sorry’ Argument
Volume 5, Issue 10 , March 2016, Pages 1-20
Abstract
Some philosophers believe that natural selection guarantees the reliability of belief formation processes. From their point of view, belief formation processes that lead to true beliefs more than false ones are useful for organism reproduction and survival, and so are saved by natural selection. However, ... Read MoreMeans-Ends Rationality, a Framework for Rationality of Science; a Review of Laudan's Theories of Scientific Rationality
Volume 5, Issue 10 , March 2016, Pages 21-37
Abstract
The problem of the rationality of science needs a framework to outline what rationality is and how it can be placed in scientific adventure. In this paper, I will try to show how we can provide such a (meta-level) framework using the notion of means-ends rationality. For doing so, we have to see science ... Read MoreEvolutionary Game Theory and Re-examination of the Idea of ‘Progress in Game Theory’; From the Methodology of Economics perspective
Volume 5, Issue 10 , March 2016, Pages 39-63
Abstract
It seems that emergence of evolutionary game theory and the spread of its popularity and utilization, indicates a change in tools of game theory which used by game theorists and economists; insomuch as some considers this theory as a progress in the classical game theory. This article, first, ... Read MoreFrom Scientific Realism of Latour to Bhaskar’s Critical Realism
Volume 5, Issue 10 , March 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. ... Read MoreExplanation as Unification
Volume 5, Issue 10 , March 2016, Pages 81-96
Abstract
رایجترین نظریهای که آغازگر بحث تبیین در قرن بیستم است، نظریهی قانون فراگیر تبیین، شامل دو الگوی قیاسی- قانونی و استقرایی- آماری است. کارل همپل بیان دقیقی از ایدهی ... Read MoreA study on the possibility of inertia in Aristotelian physics
Volume 5, Issue 10 , March 2016, Pages 97-111