Hamed Bikaraan-Behesht

National Research Institute for Science Policy (NRISP)
  • National Research Institute for Science Policy (NRISP)
    Theory-Oriented STI Studies
    Assistant Professor
Iranian Institute of Philosophy (IRIP)
Science Studies Division
Alumnus, 2018
Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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    Slow Switching and Authority of Self-Knowledge
    Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 32 443-449. 2012.
    Based on content externalism, the question of whether self-knowledge is authoritative or not has launched a real controversy in the philosophy of mind. Boghossian proposed slow switching argument in defense of incompatibility of the two views. This argument has been criticized by some philosophers through different approaches. Vahid is one of them. He claimed that Boghossian's argument appeals to some controversial assumptions without which it cannot achieve its conclusion. In this article, I cr…Read more
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    Physicalism is the idea that everything either is physical or is nothing over and above the physical. For this formulation of physicalism to have determinate content, it should be identified what the “physical” refers to; i.e. the body problem. Some other closely related theses, especially the ones employed in the causal arguments for different versions of physicalism, and more especially the causal closure thesis, are also subject to the body problem. In this paper, I do two things. First, I ex…Read more
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    Methodological Naturalism and Reflexivity Requirement
    Logos and Episteme 12 (3): 311-330. 2021.
    Methodological naturalists regard scientific method as the only effective way of acquiring knowledge. Quite the contrary, traditional analytic philosophers reject employing scientific method in philosophy as illegitimate unless it is justified by the traditional methods. One of their attacks on methodological naturalism is the objection that it is either incoherent or viciously circular: any argument that may be offered for methodological naturalism either employs a priori methods or involves a …Read more
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    Value-Free ideal is an epistemic ideal: an objection to the argument from inductive risk
    with Hossein Sheykh-Rezaee
    Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology 27 (1): 137-163. 2023.
    Arguing from inductive risk, Heather Douglas tried to show that the ideal of value-free science is completely unfounded. The argument has been widely acknowledged to be a strong argument against the ideal. In this paper, beginning with an analysis of the concept of an ideal, we argue that the value-free ideal is an epistemic ideal rather than a practical or ethical ideal. Then, we aim to show that the argument from inductive risk cannot be employed against the value-free ideal as far as it is un…Read more
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    In their paper “Should Methodological Naturalists Commit to Metaphysical Naturalism?” Zargar et al. try to show that the correct answer to the question that the title of their paper poses is positive. They argue that methodological naturalism has a metaphysical presupposition, namely causal closure, and an epistemological consequence, namely evidentialism. Causal closure and evidentialism imply metaphysical naturalism. Thus, they conclude, one who believes in methodological naturalism should als…Read more
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    Naturalism or Ontological Significance? Physicalism and Fundamental Mentality: a historical approach
    Journal of Philosophical Investigations 16 (38): 154-185. 2022.
    Most physicalists believe that physicalism is a thesis that denies the existence of fundamental mentality either as a substance or as a property. Therefore, since most physicalists also endorse a posteriori physicalism, according to them, if the future physical theory posits fundamental mentality as a fundamental physical concept, then physicalism will be falsified. In contrast, there are those who believe that the core idea of physicalism is an ontological deference to science (especially physi…Read more
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    Naturalism or Ontological Significance? Physicalism and Fundamental Mentality: A Historical Approach
    Journal of Philosophical Investigations at University of Tabriz 16 (38): 154-185. 2022.
    Most physicalists believe that physicalism is a thesis that denies the existence of fundamental mentality either as a substance or as a property. Therefore, since most physicalists also endorse a posteriori physicalism, according to them, if the future physical theory posits fundamental mentality as a fundamental physical concept, then physicalism will be falsified. In contrast, there are those who believe that the core idea of physicalism is an ontological deference to science (especially physi…Read more