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A Critical Reading of Russel on Causation
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Taghavi, Mostafa (Supervisor)
Abstract
Causation is one of the most old and difficult problems of Metaphysics which is also important in Science and Philosophy of Science. There are three different views in the Ontology of Causation—Eliminativism, Fundamentalism and Reductionism. Also we know that the Ontology of Causation can be equated with the question of the difference between Causal and Non-Causal series of events, such that the answers to this question are correspondent to the mentioned views: 1)Eliminativism: There is not any difference between those two series and the concept of Causation does not have any objective or external being. 2)Primitivism: There is a difference between them but it can not be explained in any...
Study the Books of Science and Physics Education in Iran from the Perspective of Current Philosophy of Science
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Golshani, Mahdi (Supervisor)
Abstract
In this research, I intend to case study formal education textbook in Iran that responsible for educate science in elementary school or educate physics in high school that to study the situation of education in this field of knowledge in Iran. The method of this research is study the text of textbook and find instance that somehow build philosophy of science assumption in students’ minds. In the following, I categorize these founded phrase that find in all related books, following the current philosophy of science theories. In the end of this research, I present an explanation of these authors textbook’s assumption
Time Travel: The Paradoxes of Freedom
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Taheri Khorramabadi, Ali (Supervisor)
Abstract
The possibility of time travel in modern physics based on the theory of relativity has led to the study of this issue from various aspects. In this research, the metaphysical possibility of time travel will be examined and therefore its physical and technological possibility is out of the subject of this research. Metaphysical possibility is also considered to mean the compatibility of time travel with the laws of metaphysics. The metaphysical possibility of time travel is challenged by the paradoxes that arise from it. These paradoxes, despite their great diversity, fall into four general categories: Temporal Paradoxes, The paradoxes of freedom, The paradoxes of Causal, and The paradoxes of...