A quantitative history of ordinary language philosophy

A native proposal for the philosophy of history

Though philosophy of history like other fields of knowledge has its roots in eastern traditional knowledge, as an epistemological branch it appeared in West and then entered in East. Present states of knowledge in Islamic Iran, particularly with regard to the necessities and grounds of change in humanities, have prepared an opportunity to present a proposal in the field of philosophy of history...

On Rumi’s Philosophy of Language

This paper examines the nature of language in the works of Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi and consists of three sections: Language and Reality in Rumi; the Complex view of Language in Fihi ma Fihi (the Discourses of Rumi); and, Poetry and Mysticism in Rumi. The paper discusses three main topics: Rumi's ambivalent attitude to language, which is seen as both a means of conveying truth and guidance and...

Possibilities of the Philosophy of History

1 Editorial Introduction : History of the Philosophy of Language 1

The Philosophy of Language has a history almost as long as the history of Philosophy itself. Plato’s Cratylus and Sophist, and Aristotle’s De Interpretatione and Prior Analytics, contain important reflections on topics such as the conventionality of language, the subject–predicate structure, valid inference and its relations with the structure of language and thought, truth, or the ontological ...

A History of Western Philosophy