Elements of Constructive Philosophy

The Role of Constructive Elements of Iran's Identity in Relations between Iran and Russia

Along the history, relations between Iran and Russia always faced with great changes and transitions and always, the foundation of these relations have been on the base of political, security and military and sometimes economical affairs. Iran and its people have special identity elements like: Persian language, Shiite Islamism, nationalism, regional hegemonies, anti-foreignism and etc, that so...

Constructive emergence: a computer scientist looks at philosophy

1. WHY DO PHILOSOPHERS BUT NOT COMPUTER SCIENTISTS FIND EMERGENCE MYSTERIOUS? My paper last year [1] compared styles of thought in computer science and engineering. This year I compare computer science with philosophy. (As you might guess, I’m a computer scientist. I acknowledge from the start that this paper is a bit “in-yourface.”) Since philosophy is such a broad discipline, I’m limiting mys...

Philosophy of Philosophy of Religion

Phenomenology of love: The Destructive and Constructive Nature of Love

Love, this eminent humane experience, has been explored not only by writers and poets, but also by philosophers, psychologists and even experimental scientists. This paper aims to discuss a novel aspect in phenomenology of love, as the concept of destructive and constructive nature of love, which is to the best of our knowledge, presented for the first time. The fundamental idea of this paper w...

Constructive Interactions Constructive Interactions

The new paradigm of “knowledge construction using experiential based and collaborative learning approaches” is an outstanding opportunity for interdisciplinary research. This document is an attempt to introduce and exemplify as much as possible using the lexicon of “social sciences”, considerations and tools belonging to “artificial intelligence” (e.g.: the machine learning tradition). In the p...