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73Relativism due to underdetermination of theory by dataInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 8 (3). 1994.
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43Relativism Due to a Theory of Natural Rationality. The research for this article was fully funded by TAFRESH University, TAFRESH, IRAN, and I should therefore acknowledge their kind supportJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 28 (2): 337-357. 1997.Edinburgh School's theory of natural rationality, enunciated to render symmetrical explanation plausible, thereby providing support for its relativism, is presented and evaluated. I have endeavoured to demonstrate that there are gross misinterpretations of Hesse's theory of science, network model, and her conceptions of classification of objects and of universals; that Edinburgh School's theory of natural rationality suffers from a considerable area of ignorance concerning its foundation. I have…Read more
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23Emergence of a Radical Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: The Strong Programme in the Early Writings of Barry BarnesDialectica 47 (1): 3-25. 1993.SummaryThe early writings of Barry Barnes, as the co‐founder of the Edinburgh School of sociology of scientific knowledge, are explored to bring out and to evaluate his main presuppositions and arguments. Barnes is highly critical of anthropologists' conception of scientific knowledge, rationality, truth, and their asymmetrical explanatory approach towards different belief‐systems. Likewise he rejects the prevalent View of science among sociologists of knowledge, and also their approach to expla…Read more
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21Saving the Principle of CongruenceJournal of Philosophical Theological Research 21 (80): 97-116. 2019.In this paper, I have analyzed the relationship The Principle of Congruence maintains between reason and religion. I have not discussed any of the arguments put forward by various thinkers. Furthermore, I have refrained from any exegetical discussion of the Principle. I have raised and discussed three principal questions: first, is it the case that “whatever reason dictates religion does so too”? Second, what is to be done if dictates of reason and religion turn out to be different or incompatib…Read more
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13Relativism Due to a Theory of Natural Rationality. The research for this article was fully funded by TAFRESH University, TAFRESH, IRAN, and I should therefore acknowledge their kind supportJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 28 (2). 1997.Edinburgh School's theory of natural rationality, enunciated to render symmetrical explanation plausible, thereby providing support for its relativism, is presented and evaluated. I have endeavoured to demonstrate that there are gross misinterpretations of Hesse's theory of science, network model, and her conceptions of classification of objects and of universals; that Edinburgh School's theory of natural rationality suffers from a considerable area of ignorance concerning its foundation. I have…Read more
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