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Research Paper
Man’s Free Will from the Viewpoint of Sadra and Jaspers

farah ramin

Volume 6, Issue 23 , October 2010, Pages 7-31

https://doi.org/10.22054/wph.2010.5807

Abstract
  Man’s free will is one of the important issues dealt with by two philosophers: Sadr-ol-Mote'allehin, founder of “transcendent theosophy”, and Jaspers, an atheistic existentialist philosopher. To compare the ideas of these two philosophers, regarding the differences between the basics ...  Read More

Research Paper
Interpretation of Probabilistic Statements in Science

amir ehsan karbasi zadeh; meysam mohammad amini

Volume 6, Issue 23 , October 2010, Pages 33-51

https://doi.org/10.22054/wph.2010.5808

Abstract
  Science often seems to issue statements about probability of some occurrence. In this paper, we will take a look at three different interpretations of probability. What all of these interpretations share is that they satisfy the Kolmogorov axioms of probability. Briefly discussing each interpretation ...  Read More

Research Paper
A Comparative Study of the Epistemological Views of Duns Scotus and Ibn Sina

mehdi abbas zadeh

Volume 6, Issue 23 , October 2010, Pages 53-74

https://doi.org/10.22054/wph.2010.5809

Abstract
  This paper is an endeavor to conduct a comparative study of the viewpoints of Johannes Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher and theologian (1266- 1308), on epistemology and knowledge, and Ibn Sina’s beliefs on the same issues. Given the fact that Scotus had studied the Latin translation of Ibn Sina's ...  Read More

Research Paper
An Explanation of Deliberative Democracy in Philosophical Thoughts of Habermas

hoseyn harsih; jalal hajizadeh

Volume 6, Issue 23 , October 2010, Pages 75-93

https://doi.org/10.22054/wph.2010.5810

Abstract
  As democracy has a generative nature, there is continuing discussion and study about its principles, teachings, objectives and conceptual development. This article aims to study and provide a scientific explanation of Habermas’s theory of discourse democracy and evaluate his reflections. For this ...  Read More

Research Paper
A Comparison of A Priori Synthetic Judgments and Hume’s Theory of Abstract Ideas

ali moradkhani; peyman pour ghannad

Volume 6, Issue 23 , October 2010, Pages 95-105

https://doi.org/10.22054/wph.2010.5811

Abstract
  This essay is to find distinctive aspects of a priori synthetic statements, whose judgment depends upon categories of understanding, in comparison to Hume’s discussion of abstraction and meaning. Through logical analysis of statements containing Kant’s Categories, we will demonstrate that ...  Read More

Research Paper
Cosmological Arguments A Comparative Study of the Ideas of Allameh Tabataba’i and Avicenna

foruzan rasekhi; somayeh kolahduzan

Volume 6, Issue 23 , October 2010, Pages 107-129

https://doi.org/10.22054/wph.2010.5812

Abstract
  Cosmological argument is one of the arguments used to prove the existence of God and has been noticed by philosophers from Plato’s time until now. In this research, the new writings of Allameh Tabataba’i on these arguments, in particular on cause and effect and movement are surveyed and compared ...  Read More

Research Paper
Limits of Human Knowledge of God

parvin nabian

Volume 6, Issue 23 , October 2010, Pages 131-151

https://doi.org/10.22054/wph.2010.5813

Abstract
  This study aims to find answer to the question of “what are the limits of human knowledge of God, the Truth?” In response to the above question most scholars admit that God, in His very Essence, is not the object of our knowledge; yet, they agree that we can basically know Him through His ...  Read More