besides being a literary work, the novel curse of the land (nefrin-e zamin) is a social document. in this great work, al-e ahmad intends to give a social analysis of this own era, and warn his readers against the devastating consequences of modernity. viewed from this perspective, it is regarded as his most sophisticated work representing his social thoughts and theories. in this paper an effor...

This is a historical-critical study of the hole argument, concentrating on the interface between historical, philosophical and physical issues. Although it includes a review of its history, its primary aim is a discussion of the contemporary implications of the hole argument for physical theories based on dynamical, background-independent space-time structures. The historical review includes Ei...

What is the relationship between cognitive theories of symbol grounding and philosophical theories of meaning? In this paper we argue that, although often considered to be fundamentally distinct, the two are actually very similar. Both set out to explain how non-referring atomic tokens or states of a system can acquire status as semantic primitives within that system. In view of this close rela...

IntroductionHelga Varden’s book ‘Sex, Love, and Gender: A Kantian Theory’ (2020) can be viewed as a pioneering work which provides comprehensive examination of philosophy in terms the thematic areas love, sexuality gender. object is “to bring out productiveness Kant’s approach” (15). Gaining an overall view thinking on these topics desideratum research. Varden not only fills this gap but also g...

In summer 1923, a year after his lectures on the ‘New Foundation of Mathematics’ and half a year before the republication of his two notes on the ‘Foundations of Physics,’ Hilbert delivered a trilogy of lectures in Hamburg. In these lectures, Hilbert expounds in an unusually explicit manner his epistemological perspective on science as a subdiscipline of an all embracing science of mathematics....

Aristotle's theory of causation has multiple threads, and his texts invite multiple interpretations. The variation in interpretation is, in part, a result of different perspectives and questions that are brought to the text. For instance, Aristotle's theory of the four causes has invited scrutiny from contemporary philosophers of science, who are interested in theories of explanation (van Fraas...

INTRODUCTION The anatomic seat of the human soul has been a controversial matter of discussion in the philosophical, theological and scientific fields throughout history. One of more known hypotheses on this subject was proposed by Descartes, for whom the soul would host in the pineal gland, a brain body with a special location that would adequately address the functionalism of the human body. ...

in the evolution of muslim’s philosophical thought, it was sadr al-motaallehin who overcame many of complexities in philosophical studies on the soul and presented a new outlook. it is clear that mulla sadra’s philosophical psychology has been depended upon his special principals. the present research, therefore, is to explain the effect of sadra’s theory of substantial movement, as one of his ...

abstract in the second half of the nineteenth century, visual art distances itself from mimetic realism and relies upon art form, or from another perspective, on the abstracted form of concrete and tangible world and thus paves the way for the emergence of modern abstract painting. abstraction in art can be examined critically by various methods and styles. this happens due to the fact that in ...