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The Relationship between Scientific Realism and Scientific Progress Accounts by Siavash Mazdapour, Mostafa Taqavi

“…One of the most significant topics in the philosophy of science literature is the debate between scientific realism and anti-realism. In recent years, a…”
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The Value of ‘Traditionality’: The Epistemological and Ethical Significance of Non-western Alternatives in Science by Kafaee, Mahdi, Taqavi, Mostafa

“…After a brief review of the relationship between science and value, this paper introduces the value of ‘traditionality’ as a value in the pure and applied…”
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Zeilinger on Information and Reality by Barzegar, Ali, Taqavi, Mostafa, Shafiee, Afshin

“…According to Zeilinger’s information interpretation of quantum mechanics ‘the distinction between reality and our knowledge of reality, between reality and…”
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The enhanced human vs. the virtuous human: a post-phenomenological perspective by Taebnia, Vahid, Taqavi, Mostafa

“…The new generations of bioenhancement technologies and traditional Virtue Theory both try to make a meaningful connection between the improvement of human…”
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Iranian Scholars’ Contemporary Debate between Evolutionary Human Genesis and Readings of the Qur’an: Perspectives and Classification by Farahmand, Maryam, Taqavi, Mostafa, Ahmadi, Ali Asghar

“…While the science–religion debate on human creation has been widely explored in the Muslim world, Iranian Muslim opinions have been missed in the mainstream…”
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“It from Bit” and Quantum Mechanics by Barzegar, Ali, Shafiee, Afshin, Taqavi, Mostafa

“…John Archibald Wheeler is one of the staunchest advocates of the idea that information is more fundamental than anything else in physics. In this paper, we…”
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Evaluation of the Argument of "Unconceived Alternatives" from the Perspective of Bhaskar's Critical Realism by Amir Sharifipour, Mostafa Taqavi, Maryam Poustforush

“…Scientific realism has always faced continuous criticisms from scientific anti-realists. Kyle Stanford's "unconceived alternatives" argument can be seen as a…”
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Critique of Sharif's and Pitt's Models of Technology by Taqavi, Mostafa

“…In this article Pitt's and Sharif's models of technology are discussed. These models are based on two different conceptions of technology, which are technology…”
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Muslim scholars and technological volition by Ravanbakhsh, Rostam, Taqavi, Mostafa

“…What purpose, according to Muslim scholars, should technological development serve? To answer this question, first we explain the views of seven Muslim…”
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A Study of the Possibility of a Science Associated with a Specific Worldview by Mostafa Taqavi

“…There are two main sections in this paper. First, we will show that some of the chief 20th-century theories of science either have failed to demonstrate that…”
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Is It Possible to Create a New Indigenous Technology from an Imported Technology?: Making an Indigenous Technology; The Duty of Indigenous Engineers by Monadi Nouri, Saber, Taqavi, Mostafa

“…The transfer of technical artifacts from industrialized countries to other parts of the world is nowadays a common and everyday occurrence. But the differences…”
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Science and Tradition: Towards a Pluralistic Scientific Society by Amir Motesharei, Mostafa Taqavi

“…Having offered the “argument from bad lot”, Bas van Fraassen has raised an important criticism on the Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) and challenged…”
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The QWERTY keyboard from the perspective of the Collingridge dilemma: lessons for co-construction of human-technology by Kafaee, Mahdi, Daviran, Elahe, Taqavi, Mostafa

“…According to the Collingridge dilemma, technology is easy to control when its consequences are not yet manifest; once they appear, the technology is difficult…”
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Is It Possible to Create a New Indigenous Technology from an Imported Technology? by Saber Monadi Nouri, Taqavi, Mostafa

“…The transfer of technical artifacts from industrialized countries to other parts of the world is nowadays a common and everyday occurrence. But the differences…”
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Scientific Revolutions and Progress: reflections on Kuhn's and Bhaskar's philosophy of science by Maryam Poostforush, Mostafa Taqavi

“…Scientificprogress is one of the topics that has always been considered in the philosophy of science and various accounts have been presented as regards the…”
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Roy Bhaskar on Scientific Progress and the Fallibility of Cognition: A Critique of Four Approaches by Maryam Poostforush, Mostafa Taqavi

“…So far, various approaches have been proposed to explain the progress of science. These approaches, which fall under a fourfold classification, are as follows:…”
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Islamic alternatives to the ethical maxims of modern technology from the perspective of Mario Bunge by Taqavi, Mostafa, Kafaee, Mahdi, Ravanbakhsh, Rostam

“…Mario Bunge argues that the ethics of modern technology are guided by five maxims. He believes that these maxims comprise the core of the ethics of the…”
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Design for well-being: The fourth generation of technology development by Kafaee, Mahdi, Ansarian, Zeinab, Taqavi, Mostafa, Heidari, Sedighe

“…Despite the importance of well-being, few studies have been conducted on the relationship between well-being and technology. In this paper, the development of…”
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A Possible Structure for Moral Problem-Solving in Engineering Ethics by Shervin MirzaeiGhazi, Mostafa Taqavi

“…In this inquiry, we try to find a way to deal with moral problems and dilemmas in the realm of technology. We use a procedure that has been introduced in…”
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A Review of the Social Construction of Technology Approach: Do Society Constructs Technology? by Mohamad Amin Shafikhani, Mostafa Taqavi

“…However “The Social Construction of Technology (SCOT)” is the title of an approach in the domain of Science and Technology Studies (STS), it has an important…”
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