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- Word associations contribute to machine learning in automatic scoring of degree of emotional tones in dream reports.RezaAmini,Catherine Sabourin &Joseph De Koninck -2011 -Consciousness and Cognition 20 (4):1570-1576.Scientific study of dreams requires the most objective methods to reliably analyze dream content. In this context, artificial intelligence should prove useful for an automatic and non subjective scoring technique. Past research has utilized word search and emotional affiliation methods, to model and automatically match human judges’ scoring of dream report’s negative emotional tone. The current study added word associations to improve the model’s accuracy. Word associations were established using words’ frequency of co-occurrence with their defining words as found in (...) a dictionary and an encyclopedia. It was hypothesized that this addition would facilitate the machine learning model and improve its predictability beyond those of previous models. With a sample of 458 dreams, this model demonstrated an improvement in accuracy from 59% to 63% on the negative emotional tone scale, and for the first time reached an accuracy of 77% on the positive scale. (shrink)
- Automatic gender detection of dream reports: A promising approach.Christina Wong,RezaAmini &Joseph De Koninck -2016 -Consciousness and Cognition 44:20-28.
- Thagard’s coherentism. [REVIEW]MajidAmini -2000 -Philosophical Books 43 (2):136-140.
- Schultheorie: Geschichte, Gegenstand u. Grenzen.Bijan Adl-Amini -1976 - Basel: Beltz.
- Philosophy in Qajar Iran.Reza Pourjavady (ed.) -2018 - Boston: Brill._Philosophy in Qajar Iran_ offers an account of the life, works and philosophical thoughts of major philosophers of Iran between the late eighteenth and the early twentieth centuries.
- Collective epistemic virtues.Reza Lahroodi -2007 -Social Epistemology 21 (3):281 – 297.At the intersection of social and virtue epistemology lies the important, yet so far entirely neglected, project of articulating the social dimensions of epistemic virtues. Perhaps the most obvious way in which epistemic virtues might be social is that they may be possessed by social collectives. We often speak of groups as if they could instantiate epistemic virtues. It is tempting to think of these expressions as ascribing virtues not to the groups themselves, but to their members. Adapting Margaret Gilbert's (...) arguments against individualist accounts of collective beliefs, I show that individualist accounts of group virtues are either too weak or too strong. I then formulate a non-individualist account modeled after Gilbert's influential account of collective beliefs. A crucial disanalogy between collective traits and beliefs, I argue, makes the success of this model unlikely. I conclude with some questions with which the future work on collective epistemic virtues should engage. (shrink)
- Emerson and the “Pale Scholar”.Reza Hosseini -2018 -Dialogue 57 (1):115-135.Le problème de l’inaction des intellectuels est un thème récurrent dans les écrits de Ralph Waldo Emerson. Les commentateurs ont accordé beaucoup d’attention à «l’intellectuel américain», mais moins à ses remarques concernant l’«intellectuel pâle». Dans cet article, je me concentre sur ce dernier point, en montrant qu’une compréhension de la manière dont évoluent les idées d’Emerson sur ce qui compte pour l’action permettrait non seulement d’approfondir notre compréhension de sa philosophie ainsi que son orientation vers la conduite de la vie, (...) mais aussi d’expliquer pourquoi, selon Emerson, il ne semble pas y avoir de réconciliation possible entre «la théorie et la pratique de la vie». (shrink)No categories
- Mental Being, A New Perspective.Reza Akbari -unknown -Kheradnameh Sadra Quarterly 14.Mental being has always been an issue of paramount importance and interest to Muslim philosophers. The first philosopher to raise mental being as an independent philosophical case is Fakhr al-din Razi. Others including Khwaje Nassir Tusi, Katebi Qazwini, Taftazani and Mulla Sadra have also used various reasons to prove the existence of mental being. In his famous book of Asfar, Mulla Sadra introduces three philosophical reasons:a) Istibsar i.e. envisaging possible beings which are non-existing as well as impossible beingsb) Celestial revelation; (...) he considers mental being a heart-felt reality revealed to him through inspiration.c) Tanbeeh i.e. envisaging things which have once been possible but are presently impossible such as miracles. (shrink)Export citation
Bookmark - Fodor and the impossibility of learning.MajidAmini -2011 - In Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone,Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.Export citation Bookmark
- From Syllogism to Logicism: Was Aristotle the First Logicist?MajidAmini -2024 -Aristotelica 6:1.The question, “Was Aristotle the first logicist?”, may appear anachronistic and elicit skepticism since the doctrine of logicism as a fully-fledged idea emerged only in the nineteenth century in the context of the debates surrounding the foundation of mathematics. Indeed, Bertrand Russell credits Gottlob Frege with being the first in “logicising” mathematics (Russell 1919, p. 7), where the thesis espouses that mathematical concepts and propositions are ultimately reducible to or derivable from a number of fundamental logical concepts and principles. However, (...) anachronistic appearances aside, in a fresh reexamination of some of the specific Aristotelian texts in Metaphysics and Prior Analytics, and especially focusing on Aristotle’s particular remarks on the status and significance of the principle of non-contradiction, one may textually argue for a nascent and burgeoning form of logicism in Aristotle, albeit within a much larger metaphysical context than mathematics. (shrink)No categories
- Clustering Employees on the Basis of Their Perception from Critical Success Factors of Total Quality Management and its Influence on Customer Focus.Reza Dabestani,Mohammad Hosein Karimi &Arman Safar Oghli Azar -2019 -International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy 12 (1):1.No categories
- Transatlantic publication fashions : in search of quality and methodology in law journal articles.Reza Dibadj -2017 - In Rob van Gestel, Hans-W. Micklitz & Edward L. Rubin,Rethinking legal scholarship: a transatlantic dialogue. New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press.Export citation Bookmark
- Vom Gottesentwurf zum Selbstentwurf: die Idee der Perfektibilität in der islamischen Existenzphilosophie.Reza Hajatpour -2013 - Freiburg: Verlag Karl Alber.
- The role of gossip, reputation and charisma in inducing cooperation.Reza Hasmath &Peter Jaworski -manuscriptThis paper argues that gossip can be a central element in inducing cooperation. The underlying assumption here is that human beings value payoffs in most societies, and are willing to have less now for more in the future. This basic interaction is tempered through gossip - as our behavior now may affect our future interactions and subsequent payoffs. As such, reputation matters and plays a crucial role in inducing cooperation. In order for gossip to be an effective policing mechanism a (...) number of conditions must be met: namely, there must be an incentive for behavior and the behavior must be conducted in a credible manner. Herein lies the utility of charisma and perhaps problem, in inducing cooperation. (shrink)
- Wittgenstein and the genteel tradition.Reza Hosseini -2019 -South African Journal of Philosophy 38 (3):287-296.No categories
- Consciousness: Emergent and Real.Reza Maleeh &Achim Stephan -2015 -Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia 6 (3):486-491.In this paper, we propose three lines of argumentation against Nannini’s eliminativist approach towards consciousness and the Self. First, we argue that the premises he uses to argue for eliminativism can equally well be used to draw a completely different conclusion in favor of naturalistic dualism according to which phenomenal consciousness irreducibly emerges from a physical substrate by virtue of certain psychophysical laws of nature. Nannini proposes that in contrast to dualistic theses which represent the manifest image of the world, (...) eliminativism represents the world’s scientific image just as classical physics and theories of relativity respectively represent the world’s manifest image and scientific image. And if developments in a scientific field reveal a conflict between these two images we should always vote for the scientific image. In our second line of argument, we challenge this claim by comparing two rival interpretations of quantum mechanics, i.e. the Copenhagen and Bohmian interpretation of quantum mechanics. Finally, we argue that Nannini’s identification of consciousness and the Self as illusions does not shed any light on the hard problem of consciousness since illusions themselves are instances of phenomenal experiences and need to be explained. (shrink)No categories
- The trace of pragmatism in Niels Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics.Reza Malih &Afsaneh Ashekari -forthcoming -Philosophical Investigations.Export citation Bookmark
- A New Conceptual Framework for Teacher Identity Development.Reza Pishghadam,Jawad Golzar &Mir Abdullah Miri -2022 -Frontiers in Psychology 13.Teacher identity has evolved from a core, inner, fixed, linear construct to a dynamic, multifaceted, context-dependent, dialogical, and intrinsically related phenomenon. Since little research has provided an inclusive framework to study teacher identity construction, this article proposes a novel conceptual framework that includes the following components: mirrors of power, discourse, the imagination of reality, investment, emotioncy, and capital. The above core constituents have been discussed thoroughly to trigger significant insights about teacher identity development.
- Kant’s Account of Epistemic Normativity.Reza Hadisi -2024 -Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 106 (3):576-610.According to a common interpretation, most explicitly defended by Onora O’Neill and Patricia Kitcher, Kant held that epistemic obligations normatively depend on moral obligations. That is, were a rational agent not bound by any moral obligation, then she would not be bound by any epistemic obligation either. By contrast, in this paper, I argue that, according to Kant, some epistemic obligations are normatively independent from moral obligations, and are indeed normatively absolute. This view, which I call epistemicism, has two parts. (...) First, it claims that in the absence of other kinds of obligations, rational agents would still be bound by these epistemic obligations, i. e., that the latter are normatively independent. Second, it claims that, no matter what other obligations are at stake, rational agents are bound by these epistemic obligations, i. e., the normativity of these epistemic obligations is absolute in that it cannot be undercut by any moral or other sort of obligation. The argument turns on an exploratory reading of Kant’s remarks in “What Is Orientation in Thinking?” (1786) about the maxim of “thinking for oneself” as the “supreme touchstone of truth”. In contrast to O’Neill and Kitcher, I argue that if we interpret this maxim as stating the unifying principle of theoretical and practical reason, then we must interpret it as stating an epistemic, and not merely practical imperative. This result, I argue, vindicates epistemicism and illuminates interesting lessons about Kant’s conception of the category of “epistemic” norms. Further, it helps us make headway with Kant’s enigmatic remarks about the unity of practical and theoretical reason in the Groundwork, the first and second Critiques, and the Lectures on Logic. On my proposal, principles of the practical and theoretical uses of reason are unified through a formal epistemic principle. (shrink)
- Evaluating need for cognition: A case study in naturalistic epistemic virtue theory.Reza Lahroodi -2007 -Philosophical Psychology 20 (2):227 – 245.The recent literature on epistemic virtues advances two general projects. The first is virtue epistemology, an attempt to explicate key epistemic notions in terms of epistemic virtue. The second is epistemic virtue theory, the conceptual and normative investigation of cognitive traits of character. While a great deal of work has been done in virtue epistemology, epistemic virtue theory still languishes in a state of neglect. Furthermore, the existing work is non-naturalistic. The present paper contributes to the development of a naturalistic (...) epistemic virtue theory by presenting a virtue-theoretic evaluation of need for cognition as informed by the relevant psychological studies. (shrink)
- Herbert Simon, innovation, and heuristics.Reza Kheirandish &Shabnam Mousavi -2018 -Mind and Society 17 (1-2):97-109.Herbert Simon viewed innovation as a particular type of problem-solving behavior that entails refocus of attention and search for alternatives outside the existing domain of standard operations. This exploration outside of standard routines involves heuristic-based discovery and action, such as satisficing search for information and options. In our observations on the innovation process, we focus on knowledge generation. We propose viewing the process of generating knowledge—when knowledge is sufficient to instigate action, but not necessarily enough to eliminate the uncertainty of (...) the situation—as a heuristic process. Because many personal and organizational decisions are acted upon in the presence of some degree of uncertainty, we argue that heuristics structure the way in which information is processed innovatively. We provide a catalogue of instances in business decision making. (shrink)No categories
- The Solution to Moral Conflicts on the Basis of Virtue Ethics.Reza Akbari -2007 -Journal of Philosophical Theological Research 8 (31-32):85-100.Reza Akbari Solving moral conflicts entails a decision-making process. So any suggested approach to moral conflicts is included in the domain of practical rationality. The practical rationality is based on theoretical rationality. Both the theoretical and practical rationality have a realistic kind of approach and an idealistic kind of approach. In the theoretical rationality, the idealistic approaches demand certainty in a strict sense, following epistemic guidelines; and in the practical rationality, they demand the best possible choice. Nevertheless, there are (...) some difficulties with the idealistic approaches. Concerning the realistic approaches, we can gain access to two truths: First, each situation is an individual circumstance and each person has certain epistemic features, and so it is not possible to present general, universalizable solutions to conflicts even in a particular scope. Second, the acceptance of some propositions is a voluntary act, and so cognitive space and previous beliefs of any individual have a role in the acceptance of a belief and the following universalizations. By attention to extensive emphasis of the religion on moral doctrines, it can be said that religious education through practical patterns has a positive role in solving moral conflicts. (shrink)
- A Jewish Philosopher of Baghdad: ʻizz Al-Dawla Ibn Kammūna (D. 683/1284) and His Writings.Reza Pourjavady -2006 - Boston: Brill. Edited by Sabine Schmidtke.An inventory of his entire oeuvre provides detailed information on the extant manuscripts. The volume furthermore includes editions of nine of his writings.
- World without colour and its photographs and optical images.Reza Tavakol -2020 -Philosophy of Photography 11 (1):79-97.Photographs and optical images, whatever their contents, are imprints of the electromagnetic waves in the (human) visible range of wavelengths, we refer to as light. Furthermore, they are designed to portray different parts of the visible light in terms of different colours, in analogy with the human eyes, however imperfectly. The world outside our eyes and cameras, however, is permeated by electromagnetic waves with much wider spectrum of wavelengths than those in the visible range. Importantly also, colour is a construct (...) of our eye‐brains: the Universe itself has no colour, independently of us. I ask how does the knowledge of these facts change the way we perceive the colour in optical images and photographs, whatever their relationship to the world in a representational sense may be? By employing three images, with very different origins and vistas ‐ one a direct photograph, the other two synthetically constructed images using real cosmological observations ‐ I demonstrate the extent to which colour in such images can hide the underlying phenomena of which they claim to visually speak, both due to its nature as a coarse-grained visual index, and by being restricted to the visible range. The aim is not to belittle the important role that our (restricted) vision together with our perception of colour have played in the evolution of our species, and still play in the way we relate to the world informationally, aesthetically and emotionally. But rather to show that recognizing the limitations of our vision and complementing it with the knowledge of the phenomena underlying optical images and photographs can allow us to perceive them anew and provide additional tools (both conceptual and visual) to imagine and envision such images outside the bounds of the visible range and colour. (shrink)
- Knowledge management in construction companies in the UK.Reza Esmi &Richard Ennals -2009 -AI and Society 24 (2):197-203.Knowledge management is important in the construction industry, but there is a dramatic gap between rhetoric and reality, highlighting mistaken expectations of technology. We report on a case study of a major construction company. The UK construction industry, with scarce academic qualifications, and limited use of IT, depends on knowledge sharing, and, crucially, on tacit knowledge. Economic crisis presents particular problems, and recent trends in work organization have far-reaching implications. The industry depends on human knowledge, with limited systems support. A (...) shared concern for health and safety provides the surest guarantee of sustainability of both knowledge and the company. (shrink)
- Possibilism or Actualism A Critical Analysis of Timothy Williamson s viewpoints.Reza Hajiebrahim &Vahideh Sadeghi -2018 -Metafizika 1 (4):108-136.No categories
- Bohr’s Philosophy in the Light of Peircean Pragmatism.Reza Maleeh -2015 -Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 46 (1):3-21.Adopting Murdoch’s pragmatist reading of Bohr’s theory of meaning with regard to Bohr’s notion of complementarity, in this paper I try to see Bohr’s post-Como and, in particular, post-EPR philosophy of quantum mechanics in the light of Peircean pragmatism with the hope that such a construal can shed more light to Bohr’s philosophy. I supplement Murdoch’s position on Bohr’s pragmatism by showing that in addition to his complementarity, Bohr’s correspondence principle, instrumentalism and realism can be read on the basis of (...) Peirce’s pragmatic maxim and his notion of indeterminism has commonalities with Peirce’s tychism. Also, Bohr’s practice of applying the correspondence principle can be interpreted in the light of Peirce’s fallibilism. However, when it comes to Bohr’s understanding of the symbolic character of quantum mechanics, Bohr’s philosophy deviates from Peircean pragmatism. Bohr’s philosophy distinguishes between the symbolic language of quantum formalism, which counts as a tool practically useful for prediction, and observation sentences which are visualizable in space and time and refer to the so-called individual phenomena. Such an epistemologically significant distinction is not recognized by Peircean pragmatism. (shrink)
- Zitierweise und Abkürzungen von Kants Werken.Reza Mosayebi -2018 - InKant Und Menschenrechte. De Gruyter. pp. 305-306.No categories
- Differential cruelty: a critique of ontological reason in light of the philosophy of cruelty.Reza Negarestani -2009 -Angelaki 14 (3):69 – 84.
- Shihab al-din al-Suhrawardi's "postscript" to his tablets of ʻimādiyya al-din and Najm al-din al-Nayrizi's commentary on it.Reza Pourjavady -2018 - In Hossein Ziai, Ahmed Alwishah, Ali Gheissari & John Walbridge,Illuminationist texts and textual studies: essays in memory of Hossein Ziai. Boston: Brill.Export citation Bookmark
- Sopa de Wuhan.Jaime EncinasReza -2021 -Medicina y Ética 32 (1):293-295.Reseña del libro Sopa de Wuhan de Giorgio Agamben et. al.No categories
- (1 other version)Thomas Aquinas and Mulla Sadra on the Soul-Body Problem: A Comparative Investigation.Reza Rezazadeh -2011 -Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies 4:415-428.Export citation Bookmark
- Development of Higher-Order Thinking Skills in Students.Reza Shahrokh -1998 -Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 18 (2):52-64.
- A Hybrid of Search Efficiency Mechanisms: Pruning Learning Heuristic Hybrid.Reza Zamani -2005 -Journal of Intelligent Systems 14 (4):265-288.
- The Infinite Turn and Speculative Explanations in Cosmology.Reza Tavakol &Fabio Gironi -2017 -Foundations of Science 22 (4):785-798.Infinity, in various guises, has been invoked recently in order to ‘explain’ a number of important questions regarding observable phenomena in science, and in particular in cosmology. Such explanations are by their nature speculative. Here we introduce the notions of relative infinity, closure, and economy of explanation and ask: to what extent explanations involving relative or real constructed infinities can be treated as reasonable?
- Ghazālī's Transformative Answer to Scepticism.Reza Hadisi -2021 -Theoria 88 (1):109-142.In this paper, I offer a reconstruction of Ghazālī's encounter with scepticism in the Deliverance from Error. For Ghazālī, I argue, radical scepticism about the possibility of knowledge ensues from intellectualist assumptions about the nature of justification. On the reading that I will propose, Ghazālī holds that foundational knowledge can only be justified via actions that lead to transformative experiences.
- Philosophy in early Safavid Iran: Najm al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Nayrīzī and his writings.Reza Pourjavady -2011 - Boston: Brill.This book is about a Muslim Shi’i philosopher of the early 16th century, Najm al-Din Mahmud al-Nayrizi.
- Die Behauptung Eigener Menschenrechte als Selbstforderung.Reza Mosayebi -2018 - InKant Und Menschenrechte. De Gruyter. pp. 267-304.No categories
- Pragmatism, Bohr, and the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.Reza Maleeh &Parisa Amani -2013 -International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 27 (4):353-367.In this article, we argue that although Bohr's version of the Copenhagen interpretation is in line with several key elements of logical positivism, pragmatism is the closest approximation to a classification of the Copenhagen interpretation, whether or not pragmatists directly influenced the key figures of the interpretation. Pragmatism already encompasses important elements of operationalism and logical positivism, especially the liberalized Carnapian reading of logical positivism. We suggest that some elements of the Copenhagen interpretation, which are in line with logical positivism, (...) are also supported by pragmatism. Some of these elements are empirical realism, fallibilism, holism, and instrumentalism. However, pragmatism goes beyond logical positivism in espousing some other key elements of the Copenhagen interpretation, though imperfectly, such as the correspondence principle, complementarity, and indeterminism. (shrink)
- Ibn Sina and Mulla Sadra: on the rediscovery of Aristotle and the School of Isfahan.Reza Hajatpour &Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth (eds.) -2021 - Freiburg: Verlag Karl Alber.Export citation Bookmark
- Emerson and the Question of Style.Reza Hosseini -2019 -Philosophy and Literature 43 (2):369-383.Rumi’s story of the elephant in the dark room is the story of the reception of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Depending upon where they have touched, which constitutes their vantage points, commentators have come to believe Emerson to be, among others, the “philosopher of Democracy”, the theologian of the American religion of self-reliance, the philosopher of the ordinary, the “friend and aider of those who live in spirit”, a genteel soul “impervious to the evidence of evil”, or a naïve writer whose (...) essays “are already an encumbrance”. Was Emerson somehow all the above—a man for all seasons or a “Professor of Things in... (shrink)
- Mullā Mahdī Narāqī.Reza Pourjavady -2018 - InPhilosophy in Qajar Iran. Boston: Brill.Export citation Bookmark
- L'Iran autrement: des conflits philosophiques à l'iconophobie.Reza Rokoee -2017 - Paris: L'Harmattan.La brève histoire de la philosophie moderne en Iran exposée dans cet ouvrage se présente comme un préambule à la connaissance des hommes de lettres iraniens et à leur pensée dans une société tissée de paradoxes. L'herméneutique est sans doute l'un des exemples les plus significatifs de la modernisation théorique en cours en Iran. Après avoir acquis une nouvelle forme de langage, dépourvue de fondements, et créé une conception qui permet de travestir la réalité du monde, elle s'est substituée à (...) son image classique pour devenir une manière de camoufler la décadence de la pensée traditionnelle. De même, l'iconoclasme, phénomène qui touche la conscience visuelle de la société iranienne, représente un autre exemple de ce paradoxe originel, à double tranchant, d'une vision qui ne parvient pas à identifier son trait ontologique et à déterminer l'éducation de la vue. Ainsi le sacré ne supporte pas de se voir et de percevoir l'autre comme sacré, car une conscience séculaire qui n'a pas accès à la vision demeure dans le domaine de la divinité obscurantiste moderne. (shrink)
- Sociocultural correlates of eating pathology in college women from US and Iran.Reza N. Sahlan,Liya M. Akoury,Jessica Habashy,Kristen M. Culbert &Cortney S. Warren -2022 -Frontiers in Psychology 13.ObjectiveThe buffering role of the hijab as a protective factor against eating pathology has been questioned in countries where wearing the hijab is compulsory, such as Iran; and, cross-cultural comparisons of body image in Iranian and Western women are sparse. Consequently, we examined sociocultural correlates of eating pathology in US and Iranian women.MethodCollege women from the US and Iran completed the Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire and the Sociocultural Attitude Toward to Appearance Questionnaire-4. Prior to examining main hypotheses, we evaluated whether the (...) scales perform similarly by culture.ResultsThe EDE-Q and SATAQ-4 were not invariant by culture indicating that the scales performed differently across groups, so separate analyses were conducted in each sample. Thin-ideal internalization and pressures for thinness were significant positive predictors of eating pathology in both US and Iranian women.ConclusionBoth pressures for thinness and thin-ideal internalization appear to be relevant to eating pathology in women from both cultures. However, there may be important cross-cultural differences in the interpretation or experience of these constructs. Further understanding of this measurement non-invariance and the ways in which Iranian women may be uniquely impacted by Western values of appearance is a critical next step. (shrink)
- Filsafat politik untuk Indonesia: dari pemikiran Plato, Edmund Husserl, Charles Taylor, sampai dengan Slavoj Žižek.Reza A. A. Wattimena (ed.) -2011 - ML [i.e. Malang]: Pustaka Mas.
- Does “One Cannot Know” Entail “Everyone is Right?” The Relationship between Epistemic Scepticism and Relativism.MajidAmini &Christopher Caldwell -2010 -Forum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 15 (1):103-118.The objective of the paper is to seek clarification on the relationship between epistemic relativism and scepticism. It is not infrequent to come across contemporary discussions of epistemic relativism that rely upon aspects of scepticism and, vice versa, discussions of scepticism drawing upon aspects of relativism. Our goal is to highlight the difference between them by illustrating that some arguments thought to be against relativism are actually against scepticism, that there are different ways of understanding the relationship between relativism and (...) scepticism, and that a commitment to either relativism or scepticism does not entail commitment to the other. The paper focuses upon the works of Peter Unger and Paul Boghossian to show how this terrain can be variously conceived and to illustrate that Boghossian's conception of the landscape is incorrect. (shrink)
- COVID-19 in English and Persian: A Cognitive Linguistic Study of Illness Metaphors across Languages.Reza Kazemian &Somayeh Hatamzadeh -2022 -Metaphor and Symbol 37 (2):152-170.This article investigates conceptual metaphors for Covid-19 in two languages, American English and Persian, using two approaches, namely Lakoff & Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory and Kövecses’s...No categories
- Das Minimum der reinen praktischen Vernunft: Vom kategorischen Imperativ zum allgemeinen Rechtsprinzip bei Kant.Reza Mosayebi -2013 - Berlin: De Gruyter.What is the founding relationship between Kant's general principle of rational law and his categorical imperative? On the one hand, Mosayebi answers this question by showing how Kant consistently developed the general principle of law from his moral philosophy. On the other hand, he demonstrates those transcendental critical moments that characterize this principle in contrast to the categorical imperative.
- Kant on Race Mixing, Subracial Variety, and Progressive Culture.Reza Mosayebi -2025 -Critical Philosophy of Race 13 (1):53-74.Critical scholarship of Kant’s race theory has been mainly focused on his concept of race. This article draws attention to his peculiar conception of “variety” as a subracial category that, restricted to the White race, plays a significant role in providing a diversity that enables progress in culture. The question organizing the article is this: How, on Kant’s account, given its defense of radical racial inequality and degradation by race mixing, can the human diversity needed for substantial cultural achievements come (...) about? Analyzing Kant’s opposition to race mixing, this article shows that its corollary is a teleological conception of the diversity within the White racial group (White diversity). The article reveals the neglected connection of White diversity and Kant’s account of “progressive culture” from a racial point of view. Since the positions of theories of race and racism on both race mixing and the role of race for culture play a decisive role in their characterization, these goals are significant both for a more coherent understanding of the nature of the racializing claims in Kant’s theory and of their racism. (shrink)No categories
- Tusian Perfectionism.Reza Hadisi -forthcoming -The Journal of Ethics:1-23.I offer a reconstructive reading of Ṭūsī’s (1201-1274) account of natural goodness in the Naserian Ethics. I show that Ṭūsī’s version of Aristotelian ethics is especially well-suited to accommodate an intuition that is hard to integrate into a theory of natural goodness: human good is nobler or more elevated than animal and vegetative goods. To do this, I analyze Ṭūsī’s discussion of the relationship between different kinds of perfection from non-living material compounds to vegetative, animal, human, and divine beings. I (...) close by noting that, depending on our reading of Ṭūsī’s conception of di-vine beings and their perfection, his proposal might come at a cost to his Aristotelian naturalist ambitions for ethics. (shrink)
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